[johnnym]

OpenBSD/sgi 7.3

I have by now created all kernels for OpenBSD/sgi 7.3 (incl. for R8000 Indigo² (IP26)) and tested all kernels I have machines for (please see the corresponding release page on GitHub for details).

Already available since a while is also an intro branch that gives an overview.

Every machine was tested by successfully booting with a OpenBSD/octeon 7.3 FS snapshot - OpenBSD 7.3 hasn't released yet! - and running a few benchmarks (7za, openssl) using MP operation where possible. The boot logs are linked from the above mentioned release page, as are the new kernels.

Unfortunately also this release does come with issues, this time for two machines:

• Indy (IP22)
  
• R10000 Indigo² (IP28)
  

I created an issue over at GitHub to follow the process of finding the reason for and hopefully solving this issue.

So it looks like it's time to bring the sgi-never-retired branch forward and do some bisecting starting with the Indy (IP22) kernel.