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More kernel testing on lots of machines urgenetly needed!



	Thanks to everyone who has so far tested and sent us reports

	Two major problems have been found and now fixed:

	The first was an incorrect initialization in the kernel causing
GENERIC.MP not to work on uniprocessor machines.
	
	The second was a locore.s problem that could cause a kernel
panic under load with GENERIC, or GENERIC.MP, (thanks to rd_(_at_)_thrush_(_dot_)_com 
for the report).

	Kernels are now appearing on

	ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/smp/

	which fix both these, which are the known problems we 
have so far seen.  (these have a build date of around 12:40 MDT today).

	Please continue testing on as many machines as possible,
and sending reports to beck_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org in in the format as previously 
posted: i.e. stuff like:

i386;OpenBSD 3.5-current (GENERIC) #31: Tue Jun  8 19:19:38 MDT 2004;Intel D865 PERL with P4 2.60GHz, 1G RAM, single SATA disk;make build while running as X11 workstation and a little mail and web;No problems

	Be sure to do stuff beyond just booting it, Run stuff you would 
normally and not so normally run and tell us please. 

	Failures can be mailed to the list, include ALL DETAILS you can,
expecially ps and trace from DDB. (if you're testing it's helpful to 
have a serial console).

	Thanks, and keep them coming. We need reports from as wide a variety 
of machines as possible if we are to add SMP support - If you want this
for 3.6 Now is the time to drag everything out of the closet and try it.

	Thanks,

	-Bob



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