Re: Entropy harvesting? Grim reaper is more like it...

[Matthew Jacob]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

> 
> On 09-Mar-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Mark Murray wrote:
> > 
> >> > I changed nothing from whatever the default is. It seems like a bit of
> >> > POLA to
> >> > freeze now. 
> >> > 
> >> > But I'll check this - if I can get that machine up again :-)...
> >> 
> >> OK - if this is the entropy driver, then typing about 2 lines of shit
> >> will unlock it.
> > 
> > Neither ^T or typing does anything. I'll have to do some surgery from another
> > boot disk to find out what's what. Uk.
> 
> Erm, just so you know.  The 4100 here at WC doesn't even make it past the SCSI
> probe due to interrupt issues.  If it's running really up to date current,
> try changing sys/alpha/include/mutex.h to define mtx_intr_enable() to nothing,
> which will hackishly run ithreads with a raised IPL and might solve the problem
> if its an interrupt storm you are seeing.

Hmm. Well, it *was* working a couple of days ago :-)....

-matt



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