kern/163164: FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 amd64 freezes on boot

[Stefan Krüger]

The following reply was made to PR kern/163164; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kr=FCger?= <stadtkind2 at gmx.de>
To: RJ Bergeron <rbergero at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/163164: FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 amd64 freezes on boot
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 14:23:25 +0100

 On Thu, 05 Jan 2012, RJ Bergeron wrote:
 
 > Having a similar hang with an EPIA P820 board. Recompiling the kernel
 > (used the -RC3 sources that were on CD) without the snd_hda driver
 > allows the system to boot. It seems to come up without a problem.
 
 A kernel compiled with
 
 nodevice snd_hda
 
 boots indeed fine.
 
 I also tried the hdac patch from
 
 http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=228726
 
 to get support for the VIA VT1708S High Definition Audio Codec on my board,
 still no joy (i.e. booting a kernel compiled with 228726 freezes as well)
 
 Seems like FreeBSD 9.0-REL will be unusable for VIA mainboard owners.