From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 18:44:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D5216A4CE for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 18:44:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hanoi.cronyx.ru (hanoi.cronyx.ru [144.206.181.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340BF43D41 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 18:44:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rik@cronyx.ru) Received: (from root@localhost) by hanoi.cronyx.ru id i87If4x9058242 for current@freebsd.org.checked; (8.12.8/vak/2.1) Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:41:04 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from rik@cronyx.ru) Received: from cronyx.ru (hi.cronyx.ru [144.206.181.94]) by hanoi.cronyx.ru with ESMTP id i87IeJD5058203; (8.12.8/vak/2.1) Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:40:19 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from rik@cronyx.ru) Message-ID: <413E0106.9060905@cronyx.ru> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:42:14 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Lawson References: <412D02FE.2080805@root.org> <412F141E.5070102@cronyx.ru> <412F6283.7000900@root.org> <412F692D.7090007@cronyx.ru> <412FAAB2.3000407@root.org> <412FAD67.6050707@cronyx.ru> <413DF483.7050705@root.org> <413DF8A3.9060809@cronyx.ru> <413DFD6A.4030701@root.org> In-Reply-To: <413DFD6A.4030701@root.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug reports requested - acpi X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:44:09 -0000 Nate Lawson wrote: > Roman Kurakin wrote: > >> Nate Lawson wrote: >> >>> Roman Kurakin wrote: >>> >>>> Nate Lawson: >>>> >>>>> set hint.apic.0.disabled="1" at the loader prompt >>>> >>>> >>>> I'll try this tomorrow since I am going to sleep now. I hope it >>>> will reboot. >>>> If not I'll try to get to the work to fix its state. >>> >>> >>> I have not heard back from you about whether disabling the APIC (not >>> ACPI) alone fixes the problem. >> >> >> >> My answer was: >> >> I was unaware of all that safe mode turns off, and than I last >> time check this I ovelooked >> that apic is also disabled. It seems that problem with APIC. >> >> But could you tell me how changes in ACPICA affect APIC code? >> >> Sorry if it was not very clean. Yes, disabling apic helps. > > > Please answer yes or no: ACPI enabled but APIC disabled works 100%? > Safe mode disables both ACPI and APIC so it's not a good test of where > the problem is. You should probably also test with ACPI disabled but > APIC enabled ("set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1"). default both enabled, so : acpi.disabled - do not work apic.disabled - do work > The APIC code has two methods of enumerating PIC devices: ACPI and MP > table. With ACPI enabled, the APIC code gets its info from the MADT > table. With ACPI disabled, it uses the MP table. Many older (< 2001) > systems have problems with their MADT but an ok MP table. I think > there are a few systems that have a correct MADT but flawed MP table > but that is rare. > > Thanks,