Well, I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to the latest (as of
3/28/05 0600 UTC) -stable a.k.a. 5.4-PRERELEASE yesterday and I was
quite disappointed; my expectations weren't met. I expected a
panic executing cu -l /dev/ucom0 as you suggested but it didn't
happen. Kept the machine up overnight - mgetty running, people
dialing in - and expected a panic this morning but didn't get one
either. I even tried to reproduce the panic mentioned in PR
usb/77294 but failed - maybe i wasn't doing it right? So far, my
expectations have not been met and I am very pleasantly
disappointed.
One thing that remains is the console message:
putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks
Will now build a custom kernel and test long term stablity.
Dennis
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Mars Trading
9620 Kamagong St., Makati,
Manila, Philippines
Phone: (632) 8952241
FAX: (632) 8996124
email: marstrade@gmail.com
dmesg output:
Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Mar 28 16:31:31 PHT 2005
root@go.ubc.pldt.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (751.33-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x642 Stepping = 2
Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
AMD Features=0xc0440000<RSVD,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
real memory = 268369920 (255 MB)
avail memory = 252952576 (241 MB)
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0: <FIC AZ11> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on
acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU (3 Cx states)> on acpi0
acpi_throttle0: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port
0x6000-0x607f,0x5000-0x500f,0x4080-0x40ff,0x4000-0x407f,0xcf8-0xcff
on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <VIA 82C8363 (Apollo KT133x/KM133) host to PCI bridge> mem
0xe0000000-0xe1ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xc000-0xc01f irq 5 at
device 5.0 on pci0
usb0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xc400-0xc41f irq 11 at
device 5.1 on pci0
usb1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 5.2 (no driver attached)
xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xc800-0xc87f mem
0xe5000000-0xe500007f irq 11 at device 6.0 on pci0
miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:04:75:98:bb:d3
lnc0: <PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter> port 0xcc00-0xcc1f mem
0xe5002000-0xe500201f irq 10 at device 7.0 on pci0
lnc0: Attaching PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter
lnc0: Ethernet address: 00:00:f4:ae:0f:2d
lnc0: if_start running deferred for Giant
lnc0: PCnet-PCI
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 20.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <VIA 82C686A UDMA66 controller> port
0xd000-0xd00f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 20.1 on
pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
uhci2: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 11 at
device 20.2 on pci0
usb2: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pcm0: <VIA VT82C686A> port 0xe400-0xe403,0xe000-0xe003,0xdc00-0xdcff
irq 5 at device 20.5 on pci0
pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9700/83/84 AC97 Codec>
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2
on acpi0
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10
on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
ppc0: <Standard parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on
acpi0
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
pmtimer0 on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
isa0
ucom0: Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller, rev
1.10/3.00, addr 2
ucom1: Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller, rev
1.10/3.00, addr 3
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 751332716 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
ad0: 39205MB <Maxtor 6E040L0/NAR61EA0> [79656/16/63] at ata0-master
UDMA66
acd0: DVDROM <DVD-ROM DDU1621/VER S4.0> at ata1-slave UDMA33
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a