From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 23 13:22:00 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 81E2616A51F for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:22:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E4B43D39 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:21:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from [212.40.38.87] (oddity.topspin.kiev.ua [212.40.38.87]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id QAA26004; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:21:50 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <4152CDEE.8080905@icyb.net.ua> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:21:50 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040831) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Emanuel Strobl References: <4151AE68.6040802@icyb.net.ua> <200409231440.18995.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200409231440.18995.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:05:54 +0000 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nforce2 vs. apic 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: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:22:00 -0000 on 23.09.2004 15:40 Emanuel Strobl said the following: > Am Mittwoch, 22. September 2004 18:55 schrieb Andriy Gapon: > >>I posted this some time ago to freebsd-questions@, but replies I got, >>although very helping, amounted to "don't do it", so I am trying this list. >> >>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. > > > Why don't you give 5.3 a try? It's BETA5 and maybe you could help finding > bugs.. unfortunately I don't have a test machine and from reading posts in this list I am too scared to try 5.3 betas on my main machine (looks like a lot of stability issues). -- Andriy Gapon