Tyan Tiget S5351-i7322 hangs with ACPI (AMD64 or i386)

[Robert Faulds]

No love from SMP either. It still only boots with apic disabled.
I put up the mptable, and a few other files at
http://xocolatl.com/rfaulds/freebsd-acpi/
I've been stepping through the BIOS but there is no options for forcing
the mp spec. <sigh>
Interestingly, I have disabled HyperThreading in the BIOS and yet the
SMP kernel still detects it.

Thanks,
Robert



-----Original Message-----
From: John Baldwin [mailto:jhb at freebsd.org] 
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 2:36 PM
To: Robert Faulds
Cc: freebsd-acpi at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Tyan Tiget S5351-i7322 hangs with ACPI (AMD64 or i386)

On Friday 02 December 2005 04:59 pm, Robert Faulds wrote:
> That does indeed allow me to boot 6.0-RELEASE-x86
> http://xocolatl.com/rfaulds/freebsd-acpi/test1-dmesg-no-apic-verbose
>
> Bad assumption on my part that
> root at x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC and
> /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC were the same. Or is it loader.conf on the
> release ISO that is different.

They should be identical.  I think that your machine doesn't have a
valid MP 
Table, so the non-ACPI kernel isn't able to locate any APICs.

> Doesn't a lack of APIC preclude running SMP? Can you suggest next
steps
> for me, please?

Yes, it does, but it narrows down where the problems are.  Can you try 
building an SMP kernel (GENERIC on 6.x doesn't include SMP by default)
and 
seeing if it boots up ok?

> Robert
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Baldwin [mailto:jhb at freebsd.org]
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:13 PM
> To: freebsd-acpi at freebsd.org
> Cc: Robert Faulds
> Subject: Re: Tyan Tiget S5351-i7322 hangs with ACPI (AMD64 or i386)
>
> On Friday 02 December 2005 01:40 pm, Robert Faulds wrote:
> > FreeBSD-AMD64 (Same behavior with i386)
> > Tyan S5351 dual XEON
> > 4GB RAM
> >
> > I can not boot this motherboard with acpi enabled. It consistently
> > times-out while trying to attach disks to the controller. The stock
> > controller is a LSI 1030 but with an Adaptec 2130SLP it hangs in the
> > same place.
> >
> > I've tried 6.0-RELEASE, 6.0-STABLE(from Tuesday), and 5.4-STABLE
with
> > and without drives attached to the controllers. All exhibit the same
> > behavior.
> > I've posted a few dmesg's of various sorts. I'm currently building a
> > kernel with ACPI-DEBUG an will post the results shortly. Any help is
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > http://xocolatl.com/rfaulds/freebsd-acpi
>
> Well, one thing to note is that with ACPI you have APIC, but without
> ACPI you
> do not.  Can you try just booting ACPI with APIC disabled
> (hint.apic.0.disabled=1) to see if that fares better?  You'll probably
> need
> to do that with a FreeBSD/i386 kernel for now.

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