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Date:      Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:20:55 -0800
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Enabling NUMA in BIOS stop booting FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <1995191.rPAPaoHxgb@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmon8NX9c0C6rK896UoSDdT=L0MVLuNkciuwzrgv9dEYjuA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20161214102711.GF94325@kib.kiev.ua> <20161215224500.GM98176@zxy.spb.ru> <CAJ-Vmon8NX9c0C6rK896UoSDdT=L0MVLuNkciuwzrgv9dEYjuA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thursday, December 15, 2016 03:57:58 PM Adrian Chadd wrote:
> heh, an updated BIOS that solves the problem will solve the problem. :)
> 
> I think you have enough information to provide to supermicro. Ie,
> "SMAP says X, when physical memory pages at addresses X are accessed,
> they don't behave like memory, maybe something is wrong".
> 
> All I can think of is some hack to add a blacklist for that region so
> you can boot the unit. But it makes me wonder what else is going on.

We have the blacklist: it is the memory test.  That is the way to workaround
this type of BIOS breakage.  This is just the first time in over a decade that
test has been relevant.

-- 
John Baldwin



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