Recent versions of pxeboot hang/panic on AMD platform.

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:04:48AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 21 November 2008 6:41:04 pm Luigi Rizzo wrote:
...
> > Assuming that the interrupt thing is a possible cause for the bug,
> > I can understand that the kernel size can affect the probability of
> > getting an interrupt at the wrong time.
> > 
> > There was one bug due to memory overflow that i fixed in a recent
> > commit to head (see boot/common/interp.c),
> > but this only helped on a different amd64 motherboard.
> 
> Is this now resolved with the latest pxeboot from HEAD?

I can confirm that with today's code (20090320) both HEAD and RELENG_7
produce a pxeboot that works reliably on the dual-core AMD CPU and motherboard
where previous loaders failed.

thanks!

luigi