[K42-discussion] Problem with thinwire3

[Kevin Cormier]

Hi everyone,

I'm a student in the CS department at U of T, and for quite awhile I'd 
been trying to boot K42 for the first time on an Xserve, but I was 
running into problems with thinwire3.

The problem was solved by using an older copy of thinwire3 (timestamped 
April 12th) that the ECE department here uses, so I think there may be a 
problem with newer versions, at least for Apple G5 Xserves.

I'm going to try to pinpoint which revision of 
tools/build/shared/thinwire/thinwire-src/thinwire3.c causes the 
problems, and I'll follow up when I'm able to.  I think a likely 
candidate is the latest revision (1.9), but again I'll have to try it 
out to be sure.  The comment reads "Reordering of some of the speed 
re-negotiation code.  Make sure things are done in the right sequence.  
Add a signal handler on SIGINT to clean-up -- eventually we may want to 
hook some other stuff off this."  Most of the other changes seem minor.

-Kevin