From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 23 21:14:48 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 0DF2116A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:14:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao04.cox.net (lakermmtao04.cox.net [68.230.240.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60A2643D46 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:14:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from A.J.Caines@halplant.com) Received: from mail.halplant.com ([68.100.60.113]) by lakermmtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.04 201-2131-111-106-20040729) with ESMTP id <20040923211445.FWLP17806.lakermmtao04.cox.net@mail.halplant.com> for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:14:45 -0400 Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 04167550A; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:14:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:14:45 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040923211445.GA99495@hal9000.halplant.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <4151AE68.6040802@icyb.net.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4151AE68.6040802@icyb.net.ua> Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE X-URL: http://halplant.com:88/ X-Yahoo-Profile: AJ_Z0 X-ICQ: 283813972 Importance: Normal User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: nforce2 vs. apic X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Andrew J Caines List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:14:48 -0000 Andriy, > I have nforce2-based motherboard Abit NF7 and run 5.2.1-RELEASE on that > system. I have tried to enable APIC by compiling kernel with 'device > apic' (both with and without SMP option, although this is a UP system), > but system just freezes during boot with it. Everything works pretty > well without APIC, I was just curious about getting it to work. Yesterday I gave APIC a try on my nForce2 based K7 Triton GA-7N400-L single processor motherboard while fighting a video problem and with APIC booted 5.3-BETA5 fine (but didn't fix my problem). In case it makes any difference, I loaded the module from the bootloader. FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5 #0: Tue Sep 21 05:54:46 EDT 2004 toor@hal10000.halplant.com:/home/obj/home/src/sys/HAL10000 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ (1913.20-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x6a0 Stepping = 0 Features=0x383fbff AMD Features=0xc0400000 real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1045377024 (996 MB) npx0: [FAST] npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 cpu0: on acpi0 acpi_button0: on acpi0 pcib0: port 0xcf0-0xcf3,0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: on pcib0 agp0: mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 ... I didn't try any APIC specific features. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 |