APIC problem

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 10:03, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> On 2/7/07, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 February 2007 16:38, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 06 February 2007 06:17, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have some problems with a HP pavillion dv2000 laptop. I need to use
> > > > the following hint to make it work:
> > > >
> > > > hint.apic.0.disabled="1"
> > > >
> > > > I have currently tested it with FreeSBIE 2.0 (FreeBSD 6.2) and it
> > > > freezes after the kernel has loaded. I tried to break into the
> > > > debugger, but with no success.
> > >
> > > What if you do 'kern.smp.disabled=1' but leave APIC enabled?  Also,
> > > does it work ok if you disable just ACPI?  (Does it use APIC in that
> > > case, some machines don't.)
> >
> > I downloaded the following image, hence it has KDB built in:
> > 7.0-CURRENT-200702-i386-bootonly.iso
> >
> > I've tried with and without SMP and it is the same.
> >
> > If I disable ACPI, then I get a "trap 9: general protection fault while
> > in kernel mode" just after that "nve0" has been initialized.
> >
> > Instruction pointer: 0x70:0xffff
> > stack pointer: 0x28:0xfd0
> > frame pointer: 0x28:0xf65
> > current process = 0 (swapper)
> >
> > >bt
> >
> > MAXCPU(....)
> >
> > When I type in "show intrcnt" in the debugger everything looks ok to me.
> > No extremely high interrupt counts.
> >
> > What I can add to the description of this laptop is that it has Windows
> > XP installed on the HDD. And not long ago it didn't want to boot anymore,
> > so I had to do a "destructive system recovery". I've also noticed that if
> > I don't use the "ESC" key during boot, to get the boot-selection menu,
> > but just let the system auto-boot, many times the FreeBSD 7.0 ISO CD will
> > fail with a corrupt symbol table, when it is loading the kernel. I don't
> > believe it. Can it be that something resistant has attached to some
> > interrupt vectors? Is there an easy way I can find out what is using up
> > all the CPU from the debugger. I tried "ps", but it doesn't show the CPU
> > usage per thread.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --HPS
>
> Could you disable the nve card in the bios? I see same report from a
> Toshiba user regarding the nve ethernet card.

That's not possible. No such option. :-(

--HPS