Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:56:55 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: Niraj Kumar <niraj17@iitbombay.org> Subject: Re: 5.2.1 : general protection fault without ACPI Message-ID: <200403121056.55619.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040311200515.O67848@root.org> References: <20040310205236.P62145@root.org> <200403111246.12192.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040311200515.O67848@root.org>
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On Thursday 11 March 2004 11:06 pm, Nate Lawson wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 11:57 pm, Nate Lawson wrote: > > > You might want to try booting with device apic disabled. Also, can you > > > send me a link to your ASL? > > > > > > acpidump -t -d > niraj.asl > > > > > > The ACPI debugging section of the handbook suggests this: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.ht > > >ml > > > > It's not an ACPI problem. 5.x has grown a regression in its handling of > > BIOS32 calls somehow. It breaks the PNP BIOS probe on the intel 8[46]5 > > boards that I have available here. > > !!! This should be number 1 on our todo list before 5.3. I suspect the > issue has to do with moving the kernel base address to get around the P4 > faults we were getting on some systems. (I think Bosko did that fix.) The problem is that it is hard to debug. or at least time consuming. Maybe I will work on that as my current project though. -- 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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