panic: no BIOS SMAP info from loader

[Rong-en Fan]

On 11/2/07, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 01 November 2007 09:34:22 am Rong-en Fan wrote:
> > I have a HP dc7000 box, booting with i386 is fine, but not
> > amd64. It panics as soon as loader loads kernel. The console
> > snapshot is at
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafan/1814155320/
> >
> > under loader prompt, 'smap' shows nothing for both i386
> > and amd64. But i386 works well. I looked at archive, it
> > seems there are several reports, but no solution. BTW, the boot
> > cd I used is 7.0-BETA1.5.
>
> Does Linux find an SMAP?  Right now FreeBSD/amd64 requires an SMAP.

I'm not sure if I get this right, on Linux it shows

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000defafe00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000defafe00 - 00000000defb1ea0 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000defb1ea0 - 00000000e0000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000f4000000 - 00000000f8000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fed40000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fed45000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 000000021c000000 (usable)

In addition, to boot Linux, we need to add pci=nommconf which says
it disables MMCONFIG for PCI configuration.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan