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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:09:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20031124130939.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031124114807.D87439@root.org>

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On 24-Nov-2003 Nate Lawson wrote:
> It's a long shot, but what about setting kern.timecounter.hardware to
> i8254.  It appears your ACPI timer is bad.  The reason why I suggest this
> is that it seems like interrupts are being lost.

I put kern.timecounter.hardware="i8254" into /boot/loader.conf, but
it didn't make any difference.  Are you sure it even works from
loader.conf?  From the sources it looks like this is a sysctl rather
than a tunable.  I could change it to a tunable, though, if you
think it's worthwhile.

John



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