Re: OpenBSD/pmax on a decstation 5000/25

["Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch@gemini.oscs.montana.edu>]

On Jul  8,  3:59pm, Thomas Graichen wrote:
> hasn't Jan Mueller said ? ...
> > >In article <5pgu3a$b3v$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, Tommy Johnson wrote:
> > >>Very rarely, the machines have paniced, in remrunqueue (sorry, no
> > >>crashdump, and I didn't write down the exact error).
> > 
> > I reported the same errors with a 5000/33 a few weeks ago, while
> > i was using a current version of OpenBSD/pmax.
> > After switching to the final release of 2.1 the mouse problem
> > and the remrunqueue kernel panic (not so rarely) still occur
> > when using X11.
> > 
> i'll provide you with a newer kernel for testing soon (or can you try
> to compile an actual kernel ?) ... currently my time is a bit short
> again

  I think the remrunqueue panic has been resolved in NetBSD and as far as
I can tell, the current OpenBSD tree should have those fixes.  The OpenBSD
changes appear to have been done after the 2.1 release, so a newer kernel
may fix the panic.

  I don't recall exactly what the mouse problems were, but I suspect they
are due to the way interrupts and spl levels are currently being handled
by the various DECstation models.  I haven't run X on my 5000/25 or 5000/50
very much, so I haven't noticed any problems with the mouse.

Michael