About the cursed Compaq R3000

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:12:51AM -0500, Coleman Kane wrote:
> I think you will also need to apply the skip_timer_override patch,
> available here:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-January/003320.html
> You will want to set the sysctl in loader.conf
> 
> There's also a cradbus (PCI) patch, in addition.
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-January/003365.html
> 
> There is another sysctl+patch that you will need to get as well. This
> one is for the APIC:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-amd64/2005-January/003376.html
> 
> You'll also want to set hw.apic.skip_set_extint=1 in loader.conf as
> well to activate this one. I think both of these will enable the timer
> to actually work in freebsd.

All of this this should be in 5.3-STABLE (ie, RELENG_5).  Are you finding
that some of it isn't?

We really need some Compaq R3000 testers for the 5.4-BETA snapshots.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)