Apparently FreeBSD 5.x is neither able to power off nor reset a Tyan Tiger MP (S2460) motherboard. I believe it's a known problem. While the power off may be due to a broken ACPI the reset can be fixed.
Revision 1.33 log of /sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S says: date: 2003/11/16 18:24:23; author: phk; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 When rebooting the machine jump to 0xf000:0xfff0 instead of 0xffff:0x0. While we end up the same place, we end up with two different CS register values after the jump and 0xf000 is compatible with the hardware reset value. This makes a difference if the BIOS does a near jump before a far jump. Detective work and patch by: Adrian Steinmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I tried reverting the patch and now the Tyan motherboard seems to reset as expected. My knowledge of the PC architecture intricacies is not good enough to discuss the merits of revision 1.33 patch, but I believe it could be worth having an ifdef-ed code in btx.S to accommodate motherboards like this one. -- walter pelissero http://www.pelissero.de _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
