Re: [MiNT] wakegem + naes 2

[Odd Skancke <oskancke@online.no>]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Lonny Pursell wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:17:01 +0200 (CEST), Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz wrote:
> 
> >> Is wakegem needed to keep naes 2.0 awake?
> >>
> >> I found v5 of wakegem but it not specifically mention naes 2.0
> >> or has the doc just not gotten updated perhaps?
> >
> >As far as I know it is still needed. It seems this is a kernel problem,
> >not any AES (otherwise it would be strange, if all AESes would share same
> >bug). But. As of kernel version 1.15.9 or something, the WakeGEM causes
> >occasional crashes because, apparently, the kernel's interval timer does
> >not work correctly. I have no clue what was changed and where, CHANGES
> >file does not indicate anything suspicious (but at the other hand I
> >discovered that CHANGES file is often not updated as it should, i.e the
> >kernel changes are not reflected there).
> 
> Interesting.  Perhaps it was wakegem causing the newer betas to be
> unstable here. It was b9 and b10 that I had problems with sudden
> freeze ups.

 This seems to be a problem on TT and Falcons only? I've never ever had
n.aes lock up like that on my Hades, but it did on my TT. This might also
be why 1.15.9b up to -current, both with and without MP enabled, is
_extremely_ stable on my Hades.


Regards,

 Odd Skancke - ozk@atari.org - http://assemsoft.atari.org