Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:57:50 -0700 From: Michael Sinatra <michael@rancid.berkeley.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-BETA3/amd64 issues with Tyan S2882 Message-ID: <4A95CBFE.1030809@rancid.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <4A95A479.10008@rancid.berkeley.edu> References: <4A95A479.10008@rancid.berkeley.edu>
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On 8/26/09 2:09 PM, Michael Sinatra wrote: > Hi, > > I am using FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3 on an AMD64 Tyan S2882 system, and I am > currently having issues with 8.0-BETA3. The system was installed from > an 8.0-BETA2 ISO and then csup'ed and rebuilt from source to get it to > 8.0-BETA3. Note that the problems I describe below were the same for > BETA2 and BETA3. I have received the same results when using the mobo > with 8G of RAM AND 16G. The dmesg output below shows the 16G system. On > both systems, I have flashed the BIOS with the latest version from Tyan > (3.09). > > FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE works beautifully on both. None of the problems > below occur with that version. > > Two big problems with this mobo and 8.0-BETA3: > > 1. LOR 'n' hang on halt/reboot: > > Whenever rebooting or halting the system, I get an LOR and the system > just hangs. (See LOR output below.) The system must be hard-reset or > power-cycled, and then it boots fine (disks are properly sync'd so the > filesystems are clean). This looks similar to other umount-related LORs > that have been reported on this list. > > 2. bge interface problems: Argh, it was the ASF problem. Setting hw.bge.allow_asf=0 fixed the hangs (both on reboot and on raising the bge0 interface), although the LOR is still there. I had thought that ASF was enabled in 7.x by default, but I see from my 7.2 machine that it is not. Thanks to Andrzej Tobola for pointing that out for me. michael
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