On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Paul Pruett wrote:
I copied a current i386 kernel from this week , and it rebooted okay on the athlon64 platform. To test I did a make for /usr/ports/sytutils/cdrtools and it did not complain, so thats a small warm fuzzy. Now I wait a week and see if it freezes/hangs....
The revert has completely fixed the hangs on my amd64 running in i386 mode. I could wedge the machine in a couple of hours - now it's been crunching for almost a couple of weeks without issue Sam -- Intuition, like a flash of lightning, lasts only for a second. It generally comes when one is tormented by a difficult decipherment and when one reviews in his mind the fruitless experiments already tried. Suddenly the light breaks through and one finds after a few minutes what previous days of labour were unable to find. -- Cryptonomincon. Neal Stephenson.