FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 14 November 2005 08:17 am, Rutger Bevaart wrote:
> Will turning off USB inhibit my ability to use the DRAC console
> redirection (not the GUI webbased applet but the text-console you can
> access through ssh)?
>
> Also, if I remember correctly the IRQ's can be reshuffled using ACPI,
> right? Couldn't the IRQ sharing conflict be resolved that way?

No.  ACPI tells you how things are wired up so that you know which pin on 
which interrupt controller a device interrupts on.  Especially with APICs 
many of those pins are hard-wired on the motherboard itself, so there's 
nothing you can do to change the routing.

> Regards,
> Rutger
>
> On Mon, November 14, 2005 13:26, BZ said:
> > 2005/11/14, Rutger Bevaart <rutger.bevaart at illian.net>:
> >> We have a Dell 2850 running 5.3 which has exactly the same symptom,
> >> although a lot less frequently. It has two intel embedded NICs (em
> >> driver)
> >> as opposed to the Broadcoms (bge). Another 1750 we have runs 4.11 and
> >> also
> >> reboots automatically every few days.
> >>
> >> Could it be a bug in ACPI or something?
> >>
> >> Would be happy if some rc.conf option enabled dumping of a crash.log if
> >> somebody would be kind enough to do an educated analysis of it :-)
> >
> > I have same problems on 2850
> > You just need disable USB support in BIOS and check IRQ of RAID
> > controller. If you see RAID and NIC on same IRQ or near, plase change
> > IRQ for this devices in BIOS.
>
> Rutger Bevaart :: illian.networks
>
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