From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 23:38:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B608F16A4CE; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:38:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014EE43D1D; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:38:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 89E6C85669; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:08:23 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:08:23 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20050330233823.GA6252@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050330222439.GU84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <424B288D.80303@samsco.org> <20050330224351.GV84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <424B308C.7070506@samsco.org> <20050330230951.GY84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <424B34F6.6020705@samsco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <424B34F6.6020705@samsco.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD Stable Users cc: FreeBSD-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:38:28 -0000 --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] [gratuitous empty lines removed] On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:23:34 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:04:44 -0700, Scott Long wrote: >>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>> On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 15:30:37 -0700, Scott Long wrote: >>>>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>>>> I've recently acquired an AMD64 box ... >>>>>> >>>>>> What's unstable? ... The amd64 5.4-PRERELEASE kernel just >>>>>> hangs/freezes. >>>>> >>>>> 5.3-RELEASE has a lot of problems with >4GB due to busdma issues. >>>>> Those should no longer be an issue in RELENG_5, including 5.4-PRE. >>>> >>>> They appear to be. >>> >>> I don't understand what you mean here. >> >> As I said above (and trimmed for convenience), this problem occurs on >> 5.4-PRERELEASE as of yesterday morning. The dmesg shows that too. > > And you're certain that it's due to the same busdma issues that I > was describing? No. > I must have missed the evidence that you use to support this. I didn't give any. It appears that I misunderstood what you were saying. >>>> As I described, it doesn't appear to be the drivers. >>> >>> I don't see how you proved or disproved this. >> >> Shall I resend the original message? It seems independent of any >> particular driver. That's not proof, of course, but I didn't claim it >> was. > > Again, I must have missed the part where you investigated the drivers > that apply to your particular system. The description is still there. > I highly doubt that they apply to every 8GB Opteron system available > on the market. I never suggested that they did. There's every reason to believe that it's something to do with this particular motherboard, but that doesn't mean that FreeBSD is blameless. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. =20 For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCSzhvIubykFB6QiMRAlwtAJ9WO4/fOj8MwW/EIDoSA6oA3oqnMgCfeqja Re0zQiZ9Ww6bvFXjCLSuyWg= =dpRK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp--