Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:09:39 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled Message-ID: <XFMail.20031124130939.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <20031124114807.D87439@root.org>
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On 24-Nov-2003 Nate Lawson wrote: > It's a long shot, but what about setting kern.timecounter.hardware to > i8254. It appears your ACPI timer is bad. The reason why I suggest this > is that it seems like interrupts are being lost. I put kern.timecounter.hardware="i8254" into /boot/loader.conf, but it didn't make any difference. Are you sure it even works from loader.conf? From the sources it looks like this is a sysctl rather than a tunable. I could change it to a tunable, though, if you think it's worthwhile. John
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