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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri,  5 Jun 2009 22:19:47 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Missing interrupts in 9pxeload?
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> I should note that the machine can successfully boot (and run) OpenBSD
> via PXE (by first loading the OpenBSD PXE loader and then loading and
> booting an OpenBSD miniroot), so I don't think it's a hardware
> problem.  That the clock doesn't seem to be interrupting at all and
> that I pulled a new RTL8169 driver out of your directory on sources
> and wedged it into 9pxeload with the same results makes me think that
> it's not an ethernet driver issue.  I suspect that either the
> interrupt vector is being incorrectly set or corrupted, or that
> interrupts are somehow being disabled and never re-enabled.  The
> latter doesn't seem particularly likely to me.

consider smm mode.  and the possibility for stepping on smm memory
between 512k and 640k.

- erik