Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:35:55 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Worked in RELENG_5, fails in RELENG_6 Message-ID: <7689ADE7-14BF-42C8-A3BD-B10E514799B3@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <2647189F-12C2-4084-82C8-A706388BCB24@hiwaay.net> References: <20051127010724.GA1161@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <200511280813.59911.jhb@freebsd.org> <804E027B-1274-40E2-8691-F6B6D057BC0A@hiwaay.net> <200511291452.35400.jhb@freebsd.org> <20051129211928.GE4935@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <438CDFD3.4080800@dial.pipex.com> <2647189F-12C2-4084-82C8-A706388BCB24@hiwaay.net>
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On Nov 29, 2005, at 10:50 PM, David Kelly wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > >> David Kelly wrote: >> >>> Could I >>> boot a 5.4 CDROM to test ACPI? >> Yes you could. I did this the other day on a machine that doesn't >> even have a disk yet ;-) acpidump is there. Select fixit then >> live file system (if memory serves) but you probably knew that ! > > Problem solved, but I've been working on it too hard not to share > the story which might be useful: > > Without hw.physmem="2G" its now finding the full memory load so I > don't know what was happening previously. Actually, this is the second report I've had that setting hw.physmem interacts badly with ACPI. The other report I had resulted in a kernel panic if it was set to 3G. -- 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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