Intel SE7500WV2 not working with ACPI

[John Baldwin]

On 02-Dec-2003 Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:50:27PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> What I can't figure out is why this is failing since acpi was at least
> partialy working before.  For instance, soft power was definalty
> working.  Doesn't that depend on acpi attaching?

Yes.  What does a dmesg from a UP kernel or a kernel w/o 'device apic'
show?

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John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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