Freebsd And the sun x4440

[Sean Bruno]

On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 17:42 -0700, Mark Saad wrote:
> Once in the initial loading of the kernel at the "|" for 1-2 mins .
> Then again shortly after printing the kernel banner "freebsd
> 7.3-release etc etc etc" .  This delay is about 1-2 mins as well.

This looked like the "memory check" in my tests of -Current in the
projects/largeSMP tree.

You may want to try to manually disable the check using the following as
a base.  This is my diff to -Current.  Your mileage may vary.


Index: sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c
===================================================================
--- sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c	(revision 221963)
+++ sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c	(working copy)
@@ -1430,6 +1430,8 @@
 			    && pa >= trunc_page(dcons_addr)
 			    && pa < dcons_addr + dcons_size)
 				goto do_dump_avail;
+			if (1)
+				goto baluba;
 
 			page_bad = FALSE;
 
@@ -1474,6 +1476,7 @@
 			 */
 			if (page_bad == TRUE)
 				continue;
+baluba:
 			/*
 			 * If this good page is a continuation of the
 			 * previous set of good pages, then just increase

Sean