SMP initialisation changes 6.1-PRERELEASE and 6.1-RELEASE?

[Julian H. Stacey]

"Steven Hartland" wrote:
> Is anyone aware of any significant changes between 6.1-PRERELEASE
> and 6.1-RELEASE which could cause and SMP kernel to hang when
> initialising the CPU's?
> 
> I have a Tyan s2892 based machine here which has been running 
> 6.1-PRELEASE happily for months, I finally got round to updating
> to 6.1-RELEASE and it now just hangs. I've also tried 6.2-RC2
> and the same high happens with that.
> 
> Also of note is that since updating to the latest BIOS on said
> machine 2.03 from 2.0 I'm constantly seeing:
> "calcru: runtime went backwards" messages from all processes
> including idle.
> 
>     Steve

If you have old bins & kernel & src/, or spare old boot partition, or
another 6.1-PRERELEASE host to cross compile from: also worth
building another 6.1-PRERELEASE kernel, to see its perhaps a build
system or hardware problem ?  Or a loader.conf or kernel conf before
that disabled dual maybe, & got swept away in upgrade ?


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