From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 16:47:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DEDF16A420; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:47:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean@mcneil.com) Received: from mail.mcneil.com (mcneil.com [24.199.45.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C137243D46; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:47:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean@mcneil.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2CCF2351; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:47:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.mcneil.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (triton.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 80495-03; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:47:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mcneil.com (mcneil.com [24.199.45.54]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E824AF22EF; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:47:42 -0800 (PST) From: Sean McNeil To: John Baldwin In-Reply-To: <200511101111.12189.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200511091604.49891.jhb@freebsd.org> <1131570755.1478.5.camel@triton.mcneil.com> <200511101111.12189.jhb@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:47:42 -0800 Message-Id: <1131641262.99700.3.camel@triton.mcneil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mcneil.com Cc: Roman Neuhauser , freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems booting recompiled 5.4-kernel (Was: amd64 does not see all 4 GB RAM on tyan GT24) X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:47:44 -0000 On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 11:11 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:12 pm, Sean McNeil wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 16:04 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 02:47 pm, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > > # jhb@freebsd.org / 2005-11-09 10:22:07 -0500: > > > > > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:22 am, Claus Guttesen wrote: > > > > > > I tried FreeBSD 6.0 a few days ago and I seem to recall that the > > > > > > above mentioned line is not needed in FreeBSD 6.0, but my (own) > > > > > > memory is probably corrupt :-) > > > > > > > > > > That's correct. > > > > > > > > EAMBIGUOUS. > > > > > > > > Which part is correct? "mentioned line is not needed in FreeBSD > > > > 6.0" or "my (own) memory is probably corrupt"? > > > > > > You don't need atpic on 6.0. > > > > Not true. My Athlon 2x Gigabyte K8 Triton (GA-K8NSC-939) requires atpic > > or it will not boot. This is an nVidia nForce3-Pro250 board. > > You need to post a problem report about it then since we are probably going to > remove atpic in 7.0. When atpic was taken out of GENERIC in HEAD recently no > one said it broke for them. What problems do you see with atpic taken out on > 6.0? Again, not true. When it was asked in email subject Re: [PATCH] remove 'device atpic' I responded at that time with: On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 10:40 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 19 October 2005 05:28 pm, Sean McNeil wrote: > > Just recently fried my MSI MB and got a new one with an Athlon 64x2. > > The following setup still requires the 'device atpic' or it will fault > > with an unknown/reserved trap of 30: > > > > GigaByte K8 Triton Series GA-K8NSC-939 BIOS rev. F5 > > AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 3800+ > > > > It works perfectly fine as a single core without the atpic device and as > > a dual-cpu with the atpic device. This board has the nForce3 250Gb > > chipset. > > What version(s) of FreeBSD does it fail on? This was/is 6-current RC1. Cheers, Sean