panic: no BIOS SMAP info from loader

[Bob Johnson]

This is a known problem with amd64 on HP systems. See for instance
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=111952 and
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=111955

I hope it is fixed before 7.0 is released. It would be even better if
it were fixed soon enough to test 7.0 amd64 on HP systems before the
release.

In my case, on an HP dc7700, i386 works, amd64 (200708 snapshot) gets
the missing smap panic. I haven't tried 7.0-BETA AMD64 yet, but it
sounds like I don't need to bother.

- Bob


On 11/1/07, Rong-en Fan <grafan at gmail.com> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Rong-En Fan
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