From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 14 14:17:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8195016A5B4 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:17:18 +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 256D643D72 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:17:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (zion.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7EEGn9o013497; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:17:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:47:26 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <2a41acea0608131055x477dac81u568fbd263adb7fa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0608131055x477dac81u568fbd263adb7fa@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608140947.27250.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.1]); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:17:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.3/1659/Mon Aug 14 04:44:22 2006 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: Jack Vogel , avleeuwen@piwebs.com Subject: Re: IBM xSeries 336 dual Xeon hangs on boot when APIC enabled X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:17:18 -0000 On Sunday 13 August 2006 13:55, Jack Vogel wrote: > On 8/13/06, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: > > I'm trying to boot FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE/amd64 on an IBM xSeries 336 machine > > with dual Xeons 3.2GHz installed. > > > > The installation was successful, but > > if I try to boot the SMP kernel, it hangs after detection of SCSI and ATA > > devices (possibly when doing the initialization of the mpt0 RAID controller, > > or when it tries to start the second CPU?). > > [ ...] > > Couple questions come to mind: First, will it work if you install i386? Second, > had it ever worked on this system with older releases? > > The reason you dont see the second cpu without ACPI is that IBM does not > have the legacy MP table stuff set up, they require the ACPI tables to do > MP (this is intentional not an oversight). FYI, he disabled support for APICs, not ACPI. :) In this case it sounds like IBM's BIOS doesn't provide correct interrupt routing info for the NICs. -- John Baldwin