Watchdog timeouts with ACPI

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 6 10:46:55 PDT 2004


On Friday 06 August 2004 11:32 am, Chris Stenton wrote:
> John,
>
> Are there still outstanding ACPI issues?
>
> On my ASUS dual xeon motherboard I still can't use my onboard intel nic
> with ACPI enabled (under 5.2.1).

There have been lots of changes since 5.2.1.  Your bug sounds like one that is 
fixed in -CURRENT.  Does your dmesg say that your em0 is behind an ACPI 
PCI-PCI bridge that has no routing table (_PRT)?

> Chris
>
> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 22:47, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 August 2004 10:12 am, Bill Moran wrote:
> > > Just cvsupped current and rebuilt everything last night (July 31) and I
> > > get watchdog timeouts on my NIC when ACPI is enabled.  All seems to
> > > work well with ACPI turned off.
> > >
> > > dmesg is attached.  Email me if there's any more information I can
> > > collect to help get this working better.  I'm not subscribed to
> > > current@, so send it direct.
> >
> > Try ACPI with apic diesbled (set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 at the loader
> > prompt), it appears that your MP Table is busted so you aren't using the
> > apic when you don't use ACPI.

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