Re: Netbooting an xserve G5?

Hi Alexey,

* Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 02:20:44PM -0500, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> > Is this an SMP XServe, or a single CPU?  If SMP, you can try disabling
> > SMP with "kern.smp.disabled=1" at loader prompt, and see if that
> > improves things.  It sounds counter-intuitive, but if there's a bug in
> > the clock sync that could explain the problem.  I recall a PR opened
> > about something related.
> 
> I guess it is https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271826.
> Yeah, would be really nice to track this bug down and fix.  Maybe now
> with Abu Hussain hitting it as well there'd be some progress.

That would be awesome! Whenever there is progress, I can thoroughly test
the snapshots and report back - I can only help with testing, I am not
fluent in C and even less in the context of kernel development.

Thanks again and BR.-
> 
> ./danfe
>