From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 21 20:20:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52746106564A for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:20:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rychoo@freeshell.net) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (mx.freeshell.org [192.94.73.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A7C8FC0C for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wm.sdf.org (IDENT:nobody@mx.freeshell.org [192.94.73.19]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id oALJhMKv023990 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:43:22 GMT Received: from 6.ryb.abpl.pl ([80.238.64.13]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user rychoo) by wm.sdf.org with HTTP; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:43:23 +0100 Message-ID: <139d3be1f703fb441913c75af83e4ae9.squirrel@wm.sdf.org> In-Reply-To: <20101121120025.45ED810656DE@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20101121120025.45ED810656DE@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:43:23 +0100 From: "Ryszard Czekaj" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [Call for Tests] PAT issue on Apple hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:20:54 -0000 > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:32:34 +0100 > From: RM > Subject: Re: [Call for Tests] PAT issue on Apple hardware > To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed; > delsp=yes > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:54:21 +0100, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > >> On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:30 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote: >>> On Monday 15 November 2010 08:36 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote: >>> > Often times I hear complaints like "my Mac hangs after upgrading >>> > to 8.1" or "snapshot CD hangs on my brand new Mac". I know some >>> > of these complaints started happening when we switched to new PAT >>> > layout. It is so puzzling because it never happened on non-Apple >>> > hardware, AFAIK. I really like to fix this problem but I cannot >>> > afford a Mac. :-P >>> > >>> > If you are one of those lucky people, please test the attached >>> > patch and report your hardware model and any improvement or >>> > regression. >>> > >>> > Also, I added a new tunable "vm.pmap.pat_works" so that you can >>> > turn it off from loader (i.e., "set vm.pmap.pat_works=0") and >>> > restore old behaviour without recompiling a new kernel. >>> >>> I revised this patch to make it more robust. >>> >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/pat-current.diff >>> >>> Also, I prepared a patch for stable/8. If you have recent Apple >>> hardware and it hangs with 8.1 or stable/8, please test this patch. >>> >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/pat-stable.diff >> >> Anyone? I don't want to commit it blindly. :-( > > It works for me ! I have an iMac9,1 (Core2 Duo 2.93 GHz and nVidia GT9200) > > This is the first time it boots on FreeBSD 8.x (8.1-STABLE) > > Thank you ! > It works for me, too ;) FreeBSD sadako.czekaj.net.pl 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Nov 21 19:34:21 CET 2010 root@sadako.czekaj.net.pl:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SADAKO i386 MacBookPro1,2 Model No A1151 geekbench (with X): before = 1168 after = 1253 (http://browse.geekbench.ca/user/rychoo/profile) Greetings, RYCHoo -- http://CzeKaj.net.pl/ +48 882723907 +31 617049926