From: Peter D'Hoye <peter.dhoye_at_telenet.be>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:07:53 +0200

> > Unfortunately it seems that only Linus is able to do this - and it
> > seems
> > he doesn't have enough time or isn't in the mood to do it...

> The thing is that the current SVN bootloader still has issues with some
> hard drives, and I don't want to release a bootloader that doesn't work.
> Unfortunately, none of my players experience this problem, so I am
> depending on others to resolve this issue.

Yes I know I should put some more time to check this but it is not
simple (both time wise and debugging it). It looked like a timing issue,
but it turned out that adding debug prints merely changed the timing
in a subtle way for the bug to happen more or less. Adding sleeps does
not do this, in fact I can add sleeps at certain points and get a nice
crash.

When it crashes, it is always in threading code, giving me I03 or I04
(AddrErr and IllInstr) in thread.o or its data area.

Will try to debug it some more, could use some hints though ;)

Peter
Received on 2008-04-06