[Soekris] BIOS timer off by an order of magnitude?

[Ted Lemon]

On Oct 13, 2004, at 11:41 AM, Dan McMahill wrote:
> I see the same thing on the net4501, don't have the bios rev handy.
> Are you by any chance working on the problem with the pxe boot
> loader in NetBSD-current?

I looked at it at some length, but was unable to fix it (I spent a 
couple of hours on it, but basically ran out of time and had to go with 
a hack).   The theory is that we may be overflowing the stack into the 
data.   If you take out the PXE stack unload call in the pxe cleanup 
function in pxe.c, it works, although once the kernel is booted you 
still have the problem that the serial console only does output when it 
gets a receive interrupt, so when you type it's always a character 
behind, and you have to type to get it to display the output of 
commands.   I have had no time at all to diagnose that problem.   It 
seems weird that it would only happen on the soekris board, but I 
haven't tried it anywhere else, so I don't know if that's actually the 
case or not.