amd64/171355: FreeBSD 9.1rc1 (and 10-HEAD) not booting on HP Pavilion g6 2147sl

[Alexander Motin]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/171355; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org>
To: Stefano Marinelli <stefano at dragas.it>
Cc: attilio at freebsd.org, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: amd64/171355: FreeBSD 9.1rc1 (and 10-HEAD) not booting on HP
 Pavilion g6 2147sl
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:14:29 +0300

 On 10.09.2012 00:09, Stefano Marinelli wrote:
 >> That patch should just block HPET to allow booting without tunables. Thanks for testing the patch, but that is not so interesting from practical side. What I would try to do after that is switch HPET into legacy_route mode that was known to work on previous AMDs:
 >> hint.hpet.0.legacy_route=1
 >> hint.attimer.0.clock=0
 >> hint.atrtc.0.clock=0
 >
 > After patching the kernel, I can now boot without tunables. Should I try to set those values on the patched or unpatched kernel?
 
 They should work on both.
 
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 Alexander Motin