Enabling NUMA in BIOS stop booting FreeBSD

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, December 15, 2016 03:57:58 PM Adrian Chadd wrote:
> heh, an updated BIOS that solves the problem will solve the problem. :)
> 
> I think you have enough information to provide to supermicro. Ie,
> "SMAP says X, when physical memory pages at addresses X are accessed,
> they don't behave like memory, maybe something is wrong".
> 
> All I can think of is some hack to add a blacklist for that region so
> you can boot the unit. But it makes me wonder what else is going on.

We have the blacklist: it is the memory test.  That is the way to workaround
this type of BIOS breakage.  This is just the first time in over a decade that
test has been relevant.

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John Baldwin