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Date:      Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:28:45 -0700
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [DOCUMENT] Re: Intel Macs that boot FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <443A79AD.1090602@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <DA8E96EF-7F3E-46AD-B753-D57DED149822@siliconlandmark.com>
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Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
>> Oh, cool disabling psm and atkbd/atkbdc helps! The kernel starts 
>> booting, but something goes wrong and it dies with:
>>
>> avail memory = 1025830912 (978 MB)
>> AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed!
>> panic y/n? [y]
>>
>> Disabling apic helps to boot the system, following is first dmesg of 
>> FreeBSD running on Macintel:
> 
> This is great news! Kudos!
> 
> Disabling atkbd/psm makes complete sense, everything is USB on the 
> Intel-iMac. As for the APIC problem, it appears that we are detecting 
> that the machine is a multiprocessor system, and failing to start the 
> second CPU. Could the Core Duo require a different init sequence for its 
> secondary cores than previous chips from Intel (Like the Pentium D and 
> P4 w/HTT)?

Well, it should be pretty similar considering the fact that stock XP 
just works on it in SMP mode without any problems.

-Maxim



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