From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 26 23:57:50 2009 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 F0B41106568B for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:57:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael@rancid.berkeley.edu) Received: from malcolm.berkeley.edu (malcolm.Berkeley.EDU [IPv6:2607:f140:ffff:ffff::239]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D649D8FC19 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cns-evans3.LIPS.Berkeley.EDU ([IPv6:2607:f140:1:4800:21f:5bff:feeb:81c6]) (authenticated bits=0) by malcolm.berkeley.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8m1) with ESMTP id n7QNvoNx042205 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:57:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@rancid.berkeley.edu) X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.2 at malcolm.berkeley.edu Message-ID: <4A95CBFE.1030809@rancid.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:57:50 -0700 From: Michael Sinatra User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <4A95A479.10008@rancid.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <4A95A479.10008@rancid.berkeley.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 8.0-BETA3/amd64 issues with Tyan S2882 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: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:57:51 -0000 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