Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:47:42 -0800 From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems booting recompiled 5.4-kernel (Was: amd64 does not see all 4 GB RAM on tyan GT24) Message-ID: <1131641262.99700.3.camel@triton.mcneil.com> In-Reply-To: <200511101111.12189.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <b41c75520511081016l3bf7156fk@mail.gmail.com> <200511091604.49891.jhb@freebsd.org> <1131570755.1478.5.camel@triton.mcneil.com> <200511101111.12189.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 11:11 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:12 pm, Sean McNeil wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 16:04 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 02:47 pm, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > > # jhb@freebsd.org / 2005-11-09 10:22:07 -0500: > > > > > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:22 am, Claus Guttesen wrote: > > > > > > I tried FreeBSD 6.0 a few days ago and I seem to recall that the > > > > > > above mentioned line is not needed in FreeBSD 6.0, but my (own) > > > > > > memory is probably corrupt :-) > > > > > > > > > > That's correct. > > > > > > > > EAMBIGUOUS. > > > > > > > > Which part is correct? "mentioned line is not needed in FreeBSD > > > > 6.0" or "my (own) memory is probably corrupt"? > > > > > > You don't need atpic on 6.0. > > > > Not true. My Athlon 2x Gigabyte K8 Triton (GA-K8NSC-939) requires atpic > > or it will not boot. This is an nVidia nForce3-Pro250 board. > > You need to post a problem report about it then since we are probably going to > remove atpic in 7.0. When atpic was taken out of GENERIC in HEAD recently no > one said it broke for them. What problems do you see with atpic taken out on > 6.0? Again, not true. When it was asked in email subject Re: [PATCH] remove 'device atpic' I responded at that time with: On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 10:40 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 19 October 2005 05:28 pm, Sean McNeil wrote: > > Just recently fried my MSI MB and got a new one with an Athlon 64x2. > > The following setup still requires the 'device atpic' or it will fault > > with an unknown/reserved trap of 30: > > > > GigaByte K8 Triton Series GA-K8NSC-939 BIOS rev. F5 > > AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 3800+ > > > > It works perfectly fine as a single core without the atpic device and as > > a dual-cpu with the atpic device. This board has the nForce3 250Gb > > chipset. > > What version(s) of FreeBSD does it fail on? This was/is 6-current RC1. Cheers, Sean
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