amd64/111952: Boot panic due to missing BIOS smap on install cds (HP dc5750 SFF)

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 08:00:16 am Eamon A.Roque wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR amd64/111952; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: "Eamon A.Roque" <Eamon.Roque at arf.fak12.uni-muenchen.de>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,
>     Eamon.Roque at arf.fak12.uni-muenchen.de
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: amd64/111952: Boot panic due to missing BIOS smap on install
> 	cds (HP dc5750 SFF)
> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:45:00 +0200
> 
>  Hi,
>  
>  very interesting phenomena. With the Bios Rev. 2.25 I am now able to
>  boot 6.2-STABLE-200706-bootonly for i386 w/out acpi, but not amd64 (with
>  any options enabled/disabled). With the previous Bios version 2.22, also
>  mentioned in the bugreport, this was not possible.
>  
>  With this configuration, I am able to install 6.2-RELEASE (with the
>  requisite bge problems...).

We really need to be able to see the SMAP.  Earlier in the feedback it seems 
that Linux is able to see the SMAP?  Is that correct?

-- 
John Baldwin