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Date:      Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:59:02 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        cokane@cokane.org
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: About the cursed Compaq R3000
Message-ID:  <20050328175902.GB2398@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <346a8022050211071268dc6fa4@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200502102038.41536.nb_root@videotron.ca> <346a8022050211071268dc6fa4@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:12:51AM -0500, Coleman Kane wrote:
> I think you will also need to apply the skip_timer_override patch,
> available here:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-January/003320.html
> You will want to set the sysctl in loader.conf
> 
> There's also a cradbus (PCI) patch, in addition.
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-January/003365.html
> 
> There is another sysctl+patch that you will need to get as well. This
> one is for the APIC:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-amd64/2005-January/003376.html
> 
> You'll also want to set hw.apic.skip_set_extint=1 in loader.conf as
> well to activate this one. I think both of these will enable the timer
> to actually work in freebsd.

All of this this should be in 5.3-STABLE (ie, RELENG_5).  Are you finding
that some of it isn't?

We really need some Compaq R3000 testers for the 5.4-BETA snapshots.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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