From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 6 12:08:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 828BD16A4DE for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 12:08:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B6343D67 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 12:07:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (zion.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k66C7tjg008744; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 08:07:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, yraffah@savola.com Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 07:57:59 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1152019643.704.42.camel@redevil.savola.com> <1152028572.704.4.camel@redevil.savola.com> <1152110870.677.23.camel@redevil.savola.com> In-Reply-To: <1152110870.677.23.camel@redevil.savola.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607060757.59851.john@baldwin.cx> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.1]); Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:07:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1586/Wed Jul 5 15:22:07 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-104.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: Subject: Re: Interrupt Storms on irq:11 with Tecra A4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:08:11 -0000 On Wednesday 05 July 2006 10:47, Yousef Raffah wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:56 +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 16:27 +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote: > > > I just updated my BIOS yesterday in order to test if my laptop will > > > "ever" work with ACPI under FreeBSD. > > > > > > The test resulted in having interrupt storm on irq:11 whenever acpi is > > > enabled during the boot process. I have tried to disable apic from my > > > kernel but that didn't help, same results. > > > I know interrupt storms can be "ok" to ignore but I guess that is not an > > > option in my case as it is disabling my hard drive! > > > > > > Googling for interrupt storm gave me results of people having the same > > > problem but I still can't find how to overcome this. Not sure if I can > > > get a dmesg output with the interrupt storm, any ideas? > > > > Sorry for bothering everyone on the list with my problem but I really > need to get over this interrupt storm thing. Can someone at least tell > me what am I supposed to do (without flaming please :) ) in order to > overcome this? I would have to have a verbose dmesg with ACPI enabled to have any hope of trying to debug it. Unfortunately many laptops don't have serial ports to use for a serial console nowadays. Does yours have a working serial port? -- John Baldwin