From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 08:12:02 2008 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 D3E1C1065695 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 08:12:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spry@anarchy.in.the.ph) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726EB8FC35 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 08:12:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spry@anarchy.in.the.ph) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so640973fgb.35 for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:12:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.70.3 with SMTP id s3mr8325272fga.51.1222935101528; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:11:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.25.19 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 01:11:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:11:41 +0800 From: "Mars G Miro" To: "Gavin Atkinson" In-Reply-To: <1222877744.29968.76.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1222877744.29968.76.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:57:01 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6-CORE Dunnington X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:12:02 -0000 On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 23:36 +0800, Mars G Miro wrote: >> Hiya >> >> Has anyone successfully tried installing and running FreeBSD on >> Intel's newest 6-CORE Dunnington? >> >> I was able to install 200809-CURRENT on it but after recompiling >> the kernel (taking out WITNESS, INVARIANTS KGDB et al) I found out >> that I could not boot it anymore. What's weird is that I could not >> boot the same 200809-CURRENT CD that I used the first time. Just hangs >> on >> .... >> uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] >> uhci0: [ITHREAD] >> .... >> >> I've also tried installing via PXE and it always hangs on the above >> spot, even using a -CURRENT from Sept 26 and PXE-booting it. No go :-( > > Firstly, does it seem to be detecting all six CPUs correctly? Are you > able to reboot with the old kernel and put a verbose dmesg and the > output of "acpidump -dt" up on the web somewhere? It would also be > interesting to know if anything else is printed after the above when it > hangs on a verbose boot. > I can't be sure that it detects the 6 cores. I did get a dmesg prior to rebuilding the world on it but I didnt get it off the box as I was working on rebuilding the world. I tried rebooting w/ the old kernel as well as, like I said, the 200809-CURRENT CD but it just hangs. btw, this is a 4-CPU 6-core (4 Physical CPUs, 6 Cores each) > There was a report back in July about FreeBSD not discovering all the > CPUs on the board, but there was no mention of hanging on boot. > Yes. I read that thread. The OP said he had a chance to test the 6-core for a few hours. This box is in my hands for quite an indefinite amount of time ;-) Thanks. > Gavin > -- cheers mars