From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 19 15:46:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72EB916A404 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:46:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8779913C483 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:46:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3JFkbCa009009; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:46:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:24:42 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <462705C4.7050505@root.org> In-Reply-To: <462705C4.7050505@root.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704191124.42978.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:46:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.3/3130/Thu Apr 19 11:31:36 2007 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: David Faulkner Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install Problem - QUAD CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:46:45 -0000 On Thursday 19 April 2007 02:01:40 am Nate Lawson wrote: > David Faulkner wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Have just signed up to this group to see if someone can help me out. > > > > Our server details are as follows. > > > > Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) > > QUAD CPU: 40K2522 > > HDD X 6: 40K1051 > > IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 > > > > We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and > > are running into a problem getting the operating system to work happily > > with the QUAD CPU arrangement. > > > > We seem to be having issues getting the machine to boot with the 4 > > processors, receiving the following message > > > > "panic: madt_probe_cpus_handler: CPU ID 38 Too High" > > > > So to bypass this we disabled ACPI on boot. This allowed us to get past > > the CPU error and continue to boot, however a little ways down the track > > we noticed things like the ethernet adapater not getting picked up, and > > the big problem - none of the disks getting recognised - obviously > > posing a serious install problem!. > > > > We have since tried a few things, one of which was removing all but one > > of the CPU's. If we do this, and boot with ACPI enabled, all is totally > > fine. All disks are found, and I receive no CPU panic error. > > > > So it appears to me that by disabling ACPI in an attempt to bypass the > > QUAD CPU problem, we are causing another issue behind the scenes. > > > > The root of the problem now appears to be, that if we have anything over > > 1 CPU, directly after the kernel is loaded (when booting from the CD to > > try and install), we receive the error message "panic: > > madt_probe_cpus_handler: CPU ID 38 Too High". The moment a second CPU to > > the machine....it bombs out. > > > > Any help is warmly accepted. > > Please post a URL to your ASL please: > acpidump -dt | gzip -c9 > x3850.asl.gz He has a CPU with an APIC ID of 38 apparently. At the top of /sys/i386/acpica/madt.c, try changing NLAPICS (poor name now, should be MAX_LAPIC_ID) to 64 instead of 32. -- John Baldwin