From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 3 02:26:50 2009 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 BA7E5106564A for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:26:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swell.k@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com (mail-fx0-f218.google.com [209.85.220.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F438FC13 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:26:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swell.k@gmail.com) Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so1715193fxm.43 for ; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:26:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:references :date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=0on0MWRuq3KSd0dJB3ZGLn0kPJg4aQecih/3dShn1VY=; b=JtUURyoXp5v6IWzUYFgT6LHYIBb4HLXrrK7AANwPEkYw5u9TSaXlVQiMmtysVFEChZ +gtNUrguBN8jdEPHNAc8wHJL8bMkXm9ZUaiqRTFPDmCsHbW9lgzv7eWvgU5svAoD+Vtp V4Rrp1UMyOqiaVjRqAozyWnrYtaDnr3fE8a74= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=AGONCWJ+ZntzVcQ7KQ89sxiNmofqZ2QykQfZGVhfLjnEQEnOozMfMdWkbbwTq6T6qf Gdvlt6Eu9itKRhQ64PANCfxW7FsTRypDv1/plKpubNhuyANNJHgoHM7gXuMnAcoVhI6X OjNzPEvZNGP3lI9zydES5fr784bbASgqu4tLU= Received: by 10.204.72.129 with SMTP id m1mr719684bkj.61.1246588009207; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:26:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (95-24-83-95.broadband.corbina.ru [95.24.83.95]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 1sm5377123fkt.57.2009.07.02.19.26.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:26:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Anonymous To: Pegasus Mc Cleaft References: <895D2AA2E9964CEE970A64C74D2FF622@PegaPegII> <95B6A153-B61A-474B-B3D6-66D80DA53D50@exscape.org> <4A4CC937.5050008@fletchermoorland.co.uk> <200907022136.04164.ken@mthelicon.com> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:26:21 +0400 In-Reply-To: <200907022136.04164.ken@mthelicon.com> (Pegasus Mc Cleaft's message of "Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:36:03 +0100") Message-ID: <86ab3mec36.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Paul Wootton , Thomas Backman Subject: Re: Has anyone been able to actually boot the AMD64 kernel after r194958? 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: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:26:51 -0000 Pegasus Mc Cleaft writes: > On Thursday 02 July 2009 15:50:31 Paul Wootton wrote: >> >> With you saying this, I decided to try GENERIC kernel configuration and >> that builds and runs just fine. I suspect that Peg and myself have >> something in our kernel conf files that is causing an issue. I'll have a >> go later on and see if I can narrow it down a little bit more >> >> Paul >> > Hi Paul, > > I think I may have tracked down the trigger, although I dont know how to pin- > point the cause. > > It looks like compiling in the radeondrm driver into the kernel is the > culprit. if I omit that line from my kernel config, the latest kernels will > compile and boot properly on my machine. I'm using a R7xx (but it load the > R6xx code) radeon HD card. From talking to you, I know you are using a proper > R6xx card. I think this is related to the recent problem described in "panic on acpi_cpu_c1()" thread[1]. There is at least one patch and two workarounds (load drm module after boot or set hw.drm.msi=0 at loader prompt). [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4A4D3665.3060502 > > Strangely I can kldload the driver after the machine has booted and all is > well, it just seems to hate being compiled into the kernel. > > Can you see if this is the same on your machine? > > Peg