MacBookPro7,1 and FreeBSD 8.1

[Jung-uk Kim]

[Move the thread to freebsd-stable@]

On Friday 12 November 2010 12:57 pm, Veniamin Gvozdikov wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> I have the macbook and I tryed install FreeBSD 8.1. But I have
> froze loading.
>
> I have it's:
> with acpi (default loading)
> http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/2556/dscn2822u.jpg
>
> disable acpi
> http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1796/dscn2823.jpg
>
> verbose mode (option 5 at the boot menu)
> http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/8069/dscn2825gm.jpg

It seems it is yet another mysterious and notorious "memory mapped IO 
hangs after PAT change" case of Apple hardware.  If that's the case, 
FreeBSD 7.3 or older should work, I think.  Then, you can upgrade it 
from source *after* adding your Mac model in sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c 
such as this:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c.diff?r1=1.710;r2=1.711

If it works, please let us know.

Jung-uk Kim