From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 10:19:09 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 DD65916A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:19:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B774243D39 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:19:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 20648 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2004 18:19:09 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 12 Mar 2004 18:19:09 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2CIIs2D042945; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:19:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Nate Lawson Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:56:55 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040310205236.P62145@root.org> <200403111246.12192.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040311200515.O67848@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20040311200515.O67848@root.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403121056.55619.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Niraj Kumar Subject: Re: 5.2.1 : general protection fault without 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: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:19:10 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org