Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:16:59 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Cc: Hroi Sigurdsson <hroi@ngdc.net> Subject: Re: ACPI regression on IBM x336, dual Xeon EM64T, FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5 Message-ID: <200510061017.00110.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4345206E.1090406@ngdc.net> References: <4345206E.1090406@ngdc.net>
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On Thursday 06 October 2005 09:02 am, Hroi Sigurdsson wrote: > Hi. > > The new ACPI code in FreeBSD 6.0/amd64 is causing hard lock-ups on IBM > x336 servers during boot, right after printing: > > Timecounter *mumble* frequency *mumble* Hz quality *mumble* > Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec > > I haven't been able to gather more than that from 6.0, unfortunately due > to KVM limitations. > > Setting hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 enables booting, but then the second CPU > isn't found. BIOS version is 1.11 (newest). > FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE does not have this problem (We went with 6.0 for the > improved mpt driver, but decided to run 5.4 with the mpt driver from 6.0 > instead). > > Various debug output gathered from 5.4 is at > http://quentin.asdf.dk/~hroi/freebsd/ > > How can I help debug this further? I have another spare (single-CPU) > x336 available to test with. I can hook it to serial console server, IP > KVM and remote power switch if needed. Can you try doing 'hint.apic.0.disabled=1' instead and leaving ACPI enabled and seeing if it works? Also, are you able to capture the full dmesg from the broken boot using a serial console or some such? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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