5.3-RC2 installation panic [Was: kern/60602: [usb] Dynamicattach UBS device can cause 5.2-RC system malfunction

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2004.11.05 09:18:37 -0800, Jin Guojun [VFFS] wrote:
> Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> 
> >On 2004.11.04 19:52:23 -0800, Jin Guojun [VFFS] wrote:
> >
> >>Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 03:19:58PM -0800, Jin Guojun [VFFS] wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>...
> >>>>avail memory = 511500288 (487 MB)
> >>>>ACPI APIC Table: < ASUS P2B-DS  >
> >>>>ACPI disabled by blacklist. Contact your BIOS vendor.
> >>>>MADT: ACPI Startup failed with AE_ERROR
> >>>>Try disabling either ACPI or apic support.
> >>>>panic: Using MADT but ACPI doesn't work
> >>>>
> >>>Look at section 11.16.3.2:
> >>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html
> >>>
> >>>Try setting hint.apic.0.disabled="1" at the boot loader prompt.
> >>>
> >>FYI, actually, it is hint.acpi... not hint.apic...
> >
> >ACPI and APIC are two different things.
> >
> >>The same typo also exists in
> >>
> >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html
> >
> >At least the place I looked it looked it seemed to be correct, where
> >exactly do you think there is an error?
>
>      11.16.3.2 System Hangs (temporary or permanent)
>
> It talks about "... correctness of the APIC (MADT) table", which seems
> not matching the panic message above. Panic message says that MADT is
> related to ACPI, not APIC.

Yes, I think the issue described in the Handbook is unrelated to your
problems (but I know very little of ACPI so I'm not sure).

> The, the second paragraph talks acpi0, then the last paragraph talks
> disable it via setting hint.apic.0.disabled="1"
>
> Nowhere in the entire web page says about hint.acpi.0.disabled variable.
> This is the part confuse me to believe that this may be the typo.
>
> If both hint.apic.0.disabled and hint.acpi.0.disabled exist, a clear
> introdution should be placed at front (top of the page) to illustrate
> what difference they are, and where they should be used for.

Indeed it looks like something like that would a good idea.  So
Somebody(tm) should look at it :-).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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