Intel SE7500WV2 not working with ACPI
John Baldwin
jhb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Dec 3 07:03:01 PST 2003
On 25-Nov-2003 Brooks Davis wrote:
> Since the interrupt changes, my dual Xeons based on the SE7500WV2 board
> don't work with ACPI. Specificly, the onboard nics (em0 and em1)
> appear to not be recieving interupts. Instead, they continiously get
> watchdog timeouts. In a stock current, this is an instant panic. With
> a minor fix to the watchdog function, the system sees to be more or less
> funcitonal other then not having a network. Disabling ACPI makes the
> nics work. I have updated the BIOS to the latest version[0].
>
> I've included ACPI and non-ACPI dmesg output below. What else is needed
> to diagnose this problem? Any patches I should try?
Since acpi0 failed to probe, ACPI isn't used to route interrupts. However,
the apic code expects ACPI to do that since it enumerated CPUs and I/O
APICs. You are just going to have to disable ACPI for now.
> acpi0: <INTEL SWV20 > on motherboard
> ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_._REG] (Node 0xc29b4660),
> AE_NOT_EXIST
> acpi0: Could not initialise SystemIO handler: AE_NOT_EXIST
> device_probe_and_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6
If you can get this fixed, then you can re-enable ACPI again.
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