Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:59:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Subject: Re: ACPI instability on Sony VAIOs? Message-ID: <3DAB13F4.8DC3491F@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.20021014144018.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On 14-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > > Will Andrews wrote: > >> Is anyone else seeing -CURRENT unable to boot on Sony VAIOs > >> running the newest -CURRENT? I get panics when it goes anywhere > >> near ACPI, and it drops into the debugger. Moving acpi.ko out of > >> the way allows it to go further, but then it hangs after it loads > >> the keyboard controller... > > > > Also: > > > > options DISABLE_PSE > > options DISABLE_PG_G > > > > The CPU in these machines has 128 rather than 16 TLB entries. > > *sigh*, this is not related to his problem. I think the ACPI PCI > link code has a bug in that it tries to free memory it has not > allocated (including actual error messages and a trace from ddb() > could help verify this) and has nothing to do with the TLB on the > CPU. He doesn't load the ACPI; from the end of the above that I quoted: "Moving acpi.ko out of the way allows it to go further, but then it hangs after it loads the keyboard controller..." FWIW, not loading the ACPI *AND* compiling the kernel with those options fixes the problem on my personal Sony VAIO PCG-XG29. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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