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Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-8-BETA2 on MacBookPro5.5
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On Tuesday 21 July 2009 04:41 pm, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 July 2009 18:45:01 Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 July 2009 12:18 pm, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 21 July 2009 14:39:05 Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > FreeBSD-8-BETA2 does not boot on MacBookPro5.5. It Freezes
> > > > during kernel load. Is anyone working on this?
> > >
> > > Some more information:
> > >
> > > The kernel loading process gets to a point where ACPI is about
> > > to get initialized. I'm currently tracing a little bit and so
> > > far it ends up that AcpiEnable() in
> > > "contrib/dev/acpica/events/evxfevnt.c" never returns. Somewhere
> > > inside AcpiHwSetMode() something triggers a hardware condition,
> > > which I cannot see where ends up. Any lights go up?
> >
> > Isn't it a new nVidia chipset system?  If so, it is a known
> > problem, reported by rpaulo (CC'ed).  Unfortunately, I do not
> > have hardware to debug it.  Any way, can you comment out the
> > retry loop in the AcpiHwSetMode() from
> > sys/contrib/dev/acpica/hardware/hwacpi.c and try again?
>
> The system hangs before the while loop. Adding more debugging I
> found out it hangs exactly at the call to AcpiHwWritePort():
>
>         Status = AcpiHwWritePort (AcpiGbl_FADT.SmiCommand,
>                         (UINT32) AcpiGbl_FADT.AcpiEnable, 8);
>
>
> I've attached dmesg from Ubuntu 9.x booting on the same machine.
> Anything more you want me to try?

Hmmm...  Can you show me acpidump output with all tables?

Thanks,

Jung-uk Kim