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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 2006 11:56:27 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: device atpic to be deprecated?
Message-ID:  <200604031156.28916.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060402060323.cbe762a7.conrads@cox.net>
References:  <20060329020527.f8f087a4.conrads@cox.net> <200603290842.40970.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060402060323.cbe762a7.conrads@cox.net>

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On Sunday 02 April 2006 07:03, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:42:40 -0500
> John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 03:05 am, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > > While searching the mailing lists recently on an unrelated subject, I
> > > happened across a message mentioning the intended removal of "device atpic"
> > > in 7.0.  So, I tried building a kernel without it on my RELENG_6 amd64 box
> > > (nVidia nForce 3 chipset) and discovered that it was unable to mount the
> > > root slice.
> > >
> > > Naturally, I'm a little concerned about this.  :-)
> > 
> > Some more details would be handy. :)  Is your machine UP or SMP?
> 
> It's a uniprocessor box:
> 
> FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #4: Fri Mar 31 18:42:21 CST 2006
>     conrads@serene.no-ip.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (1995.01-MHz K8-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0xf4a  Stepping = 10
>   Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,
> CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
>   AMD Features=0xe0500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
> real memory  = 1073479680 (1023 MB)
> avail memory = 1026379776 (978 MB)
> ACPI APIC Table: <A M I  OEMAPIC >
> ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
> acpi0: <A M I OEMRSDT> on motherboard
> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
> Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
> acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
> (...)

Ok.  Can you provide verbose dmesg's (boot -v) from a kernel w/o
'device atpic' and a kernel with 'device atpic'?

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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