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Cc: Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD/amd64 on machine without ACPI BIOS?
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on 11/12/2011 11:27 Lev Serebryakov said the following:
> Hello, Freebsd-current.
> You wrote 9 декабря 2011 г., 14:10:18:
> 
>>   Soekris ("famous" developer of small x86-compatible appliance-like
>> hardware) released net6501 some time ago, which is based on Atom (E6xx)
>> CPU.
>>   It seems, that 64-bit version of Linux could run on it without
>> problems.
>>   But FreeBSD/amd64 can not. It stops after kernel detect some
>> devices without any errors or panics.
>>   This box has one big difference from billions other Intel-based
>> boxes on market: it has very special BIOS without ACPI at all. Someone
>> says, that it could be reason why FreeBSD/amd64 could not be boot on
>> this box.
>>  Is it true? Is it possible to have FreeBSD/amd64 without ACPI?
>   It seems, that "device mptable" in kernel config helps.
>   Why is it not in GENERIC kernel?

Just a guess, maybe because GENERIC kernel is for "generic" hardware.

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Andriy Gapon