Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:48:56 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ACPI-0220: *** Error: Unable to install System Control Interrupt Handler, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS Message-ID: <B1D0E215-84BB-428F-96A8-40155E633955@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20051212224636.A23668@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <20051211002447.I23668@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <20051212224636.A23668@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
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On Dec 12, 2005, at 5:54 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > > Hi, > >> I updated my BIOS on an AMD64 machine to check if it improves some >> other things and got following with HEAD from around 12-08 (before >> the last amd64/jhb commits I think) and with HEAD from today (after >> these updates). >> >> RELENG_6 from beginning of December seems to be fine. >> >> ... >> AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow> >> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> > > for the records: > > This line (new BIOS) > Features=0x78bf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA > ,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2> > should read like this (old BIOS) > Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PG > E,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2> > > The APIC is missing and it turned out that this is a BIOS and not a > FreeBSD problem. Um, gee, that's obscure. :) You could probably just remove that check I guess. I don't know of any machines that include an MP Table or MADT that use CPUs that don't contain a local APIC anyway. -- 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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