On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, Miod Vallat wrote: > > > >>For what it's worth, this does not happen with: > > > >> cpu0 at mainbus0: 750 (Revision 0x3311): 499 MHz: 256KB backside > > > >> cache > > > >> > > > >>I'll try to put my B&W G3 back in working condition ASAP to check if I > > > >>can reproduce the problem. It features: > > > >> cpu0 at mainbus0: 750 (Revision 0x202): 400 MHz: 1MB backside cache > > > >>so if this is indeed an old-G3 specific issue, I should be affected. > > > > > > > >... and I can reproduce this on the B&W G3 here. I'll try to > > > >investigate, but this machine is actively trying to commit suicide (when > > > >it does not spontaneously powers off). > > > > > > Was this fixed? > > > > No. But I lost a lot of hair. And I could not find anything interesting > > in the various G3 errata documents. > > That said, I wonder if mpi@'s recent rewrite of the idle path on ppc > will change that behaviour. Something for the week-end...
FWIW my G3 is running last week's snapshot and the problem is still here... sorry for your hair.
