On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 16:10 -0800, Devin Teske wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Devin Teske [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > [email protected] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:10 PM > > To: 'Ian Lepore' > > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > > Subject: RE: kgzip(1) is broken > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Ian Lepore [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:05 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: kgzip(1) is broken > > > > > > On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 13:27 -0800, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I have been sad of-late because kgzip(1) no longer produces a usable > kernel. > > > > > > > > All versions of 9.x suffer this. > > > > > > > > And somewhere between 8.3-RELEASE-p1 and 8.3-RELEASE-p5 this recently > > > broke in > > > > the 8.x series. > > > > > > > > I haven't tried the 7 series lately, but if whatever is making the > > > > rounds > > gets > > > > MFC'd that far back, I expect the problem to percolate there too. > > > > > > > > The symptom is that the machine reboots immediately and unexpectedly the > > > moment > > > > the kernel is executed by the loader. > > > > > > > > This is quite troubling and I am looking for someone to help find the > > culprit. I > > > > don't know where to start looking. > > > > > > Here are some possible candidates from the things that were MFC'd to 8 > > > in that timeframe. I haven't looked at what these do, they're just > > > changes that affect files related to booting. > > > > > > r233211 > > > r233377 > > > r233469 > > > r234563 > > > > > > > Thanks Ian! > > > > I'll test each one individually to see if regressing any one (or all) > addresses > > the problem. > > Progress... > > Looks like I found the culprit. > > Turns out it's a back-ported bxe(4) driver (back-ported from 9 -- where kgzip > seems to never work). > > I wonder why back-porting bxe(4) from stable/9 to releng/8.3 would cause kgzip > to produce non-working kernels. >
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how a device driver can lead to "the machine reboots immediately and unexpectedly the moment the kernel is executed by the loader," which I took to mean "before seeing the copyright or anything." > I'm emailing the maintainers (davidch + other Broadcom folk) -- Ian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
