[Call for Tests] PAT issue on Apple hardware

[Ryszard Czekaj]

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> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:32:34 +0100
> From: RM <reuf_m at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Call for Tests] PAT issue on Apple hardware
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> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:54:21 +0100, Jung-uk Kim <jkim at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:30 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>>> On Monday 15 November 2010 08:36 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>>> > Often times I hear complaints like "my Mac hangs after upgrading
>>> > to 8.1" or "snapshot CD hangs on my brand new Mac".  I know some
>>> > of these complaints started happening when we switched to new PAT
>>> > layout.  It is so puzzling because it never happened on non-Apple
>>> > hardware, AFAIK.  I really like to fix this problem but I cannot
>>> > afford a Mac. :-P
>>> >
>>> > If you are one of those lucky people, please test the attached
>>> > patch and report your hardware model and any improvement or
>>> > regression.
>>> >
>>> > Also, I added a new tunable "vm.pmap.pat_works" so that you can
>>> > turn it off from loader (i.e., "set vm.pmap.pat_works=0") and
>>> > restore old behaviour without recompiling a new kernel.
>>>
>>> I revised this patch to make it more robust.
>>>
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/pat-current.diff
>>>
>>> Also, I prepared a patch for stable/8.  If you have recent Apple
>>> hardware and it hangs with 8.1 or stable/8, please test this patch.
>>>
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/pat-stable.diff
>>
>> Anyone?  I don't want to commit it blindly. :-(
>
> It works for me ! I have an iMac9,1 (Core2 Duo 2.93 GHz and nVidia GT9200)
>
> This is the first time it boots on FreeBSD 8.x (8.1-STABLE)
>
> Thank you !
>

It works for me, too ;)

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21 19:34:21 CET 2010    
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