kern/121558: Supermicro X7SB4 Fatal trap 12 when ACPI disabled

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 12 March 2008 11:15:07 am Leon Kos wrote:
> It really looks like that if one uses hints to be statically compiled, then 
> /boot/device.hints are ignored. After adding GENERIC.hints to CAD.hints my
> kernel booted. But not with ACPI disabled. Same issue with Fatal trap 12.
> 
> I've added to /boot/device.hints
> hw.pci13.0.INTA.irq="16"
> hw.pci15.0.INTA.irq="17"
> hw.pci5.0.INTA.irq="17"

How about just removing hints from your kernel config completely and just 
putting hints in /boot/device.hints.  That is, remove CAD.hints and just 
leave relevant hints in /boot/device.hints.

> With GENERIC and this hints does not help when booting ACPI disabled. Even 
> if they are statically compiled in.  Is the syntax correct? How can I 
> verify this? mptable is not useful as John Baldwin said?
> 
> I am also sad to say, that Supermicro response on the issue was:
> Hello Sir,
> 
> We didn't validate FreeBSD with our X7SB4, can you please install one of the 
> validated OS'es and see if error is still the same?
> 
> http://www.supermicro.nl/support/resources/OS/X7S.cfm
> 
> Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards / Mit freundlichem gruß,
> 
> Peter Maas
> Senior Application Engineer
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Leon Kos, CAD lab, Mech.Eng., University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
> (http://www.lecad.uni-lj.si/~leon)

If they support Linux, boot Linux with ACPI disabled.

-- 
John Baldwin