[DOCUMENT] Re: Intel Macs that boot FreeBSD?

[Maxim Sobolev]

Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
>> Oh, cool disabling psm and atkbd/atkbdc helps! The kernel starts 
>> booting, but something goes wrong and it dies with:
>>
>> avail memory = 1025830912 (978 MB)
>> AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed!
>> panic y/n? [y]
>>
>> Disabling apic helps to boot the system, following is first dmesg of 
>> FreeBSD running on Macintel:
> 
> This is great news! Kudos!
> 
> Disabling atkbd/psm makes complete sense, everything is USB on the 
> Intel-iMac. As for the APIC problem, it appears that we are detecting 
> that the machine is a multiprocessor system, and failing to start the 
> second CPU. Could the Core Duo require a different init sequence for its 
> secondary cores than previous chips from Intel (Like the Pentium D and 
> P4 w/HTT)?

Well, it should be pretty similar considering the fact that stock XP 
just works on it in SMP mode without any problems.

-Maxim