From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 31 05:56:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D158A1065672 for ; Mon, 31 May 2010 05:56:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [IPv6:2001:470:a803::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76AD68FC2D for ; Mon, 31 May 2010 05:56:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [211.166.10.233]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B80EA60325; Mon, 31 May 2010 13:55:55 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([211.166.10.233]) by mail.geekcn.org (mail.geekcn.org [211.166.10.233]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id jpXaYSRt-0Jn; Mon, 31 May 2010 13:55:44 +0800 (CST) Received: from delta.delphij.net (c-24-4-100-103.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.4.100.103]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C34F8A60234; Mon, 31 May 2010 13:55:43 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent: mime-version:to:subject:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=w6fYxGNn7oHxHj4y2TE0uSxoZrT/Tl3umTM9rPZqDMMcdZfxfH54hFbkNcQoaxOUd QYq4aIwD6PiFATtqLEpVA== Message-ID: <4C034F5B.10806@delphij.net> Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 22:55:39 -0700 From: Xin LI Organization: The Geek China Organization User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100408 Thunderbird/3.0.4 ThunderBrowse/3.2.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Current X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=3FCA37C1; url=http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: AES NI vs BIOS settings X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: d@delphij.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 05:56:03 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I just found that if I disable "AES NI" in BIOS setting, FreeBSD would be able to detect it on boot with: Features2=0x29ee3ff,DCA,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI> However if it's set to "enabled" I got: Features2=0x9ee3fd,DCA,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT> The CPU was Xeon L5630 and motherboard is Supermicro X8STi with BIOS 1.00c. Should I consider this a BIOS issue with known workaround that I consider "Disable" as "Enabled"? :) Cheers, - -- Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJMA09bAAoJEATO+BI/yjfB/wAH/jxlUlwLDq/tLans2sbu+Yjl UpoJjcLEx7e3RAlPMyzNFa7/D4NTWwaYhF1G4Vb+ylkIh8CGlNj+2dzfVMOeg93B yBeuAG0geItDB55KmbTvO0Nly4eU6tt5GP2QGAkzgSd9KDWkYgggLYxc8iFtSe+E cF5uyPFR9IQZ/t7wtjqKAFZeqM18dfstZ/lGFgH4nXvwHsL5OScOd2dTrPSJXvoI eYz+TBOw6IwuxRlJjbO9kXUjKQmMyJdH//Wd9R7wpXNZwPtCram+dJGUXSWgRrVw Ku9+iFBjvqUmrqCnx74cFkYSvehlolMoOUtB7vrYorQMPiGy37cKtd4cQq27YDE= =iTxq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----