Boot problems on Tyan S5360

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 12 December 2004 11:22 pm, John Milford wrote:
> 	I am trying to help some folks sort out a problem with booting
> FreeBSD 5.3 on this board, and I think I am seeing interrupt routing
> problems.  I am asking here because I don't know much about the
> APIC and how it is setup, and this list seems to have the greatest
> concentration of this knowledge. I am including an mptable collected
> under 5.2.1 which does boot, and verbose boot output.  I believe that
> interrupts are not making it to the CPU because I can put a breakpoint
> in xapic_isr2, and it never went off. I believe this is the interrupt
> vector that represents ahc1 which INT17 which is the one that is having
> problems.  If you can give me some pointers it would be greatly
> appreciated. Thank you.

Try setting 'hw.pci.do_powerstate=0' from the loader to see if it works 
better.  The kernel may be turning the APICs off since they show up as PCI 
devices and no driver attaches to them.

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