Hello,
I found that GENERIC -current (from latest snapshot) fails to boot on
ALIX (see A) below), whereas the same kernel boots fine on WRAP. For
my tests, I simply swap the same 1GB CF card, from the WRAP to ALIX on
which I installed OpenBSD from the latest snapshots.
After disabling 'pciglxb' in the kernel however, the same CF card
boots fine on the ALIX (see B) below) as well as on WRAP:
config -ef /bsd
disable glxpcib
quit
reboot
Earlier, I have made the same observation while building a custom
kernel using the flashboot enviroment. As a result, no watchdog time
is available, for example.
I found this while moving my SOHO firewall cluster from two old Nokia
IP120 which boot OpenBSD from harddisks to two ALIX boards from PC
Engines which boot off solid-state CF cards. In order to preserve the
CF card, I have modified it so that /tmp, /var and /dev are mounted
read-write to RAM (mfs), and the remaining file systems are mounted
read-only (e.g. running from CF card).
I do not yet understand if the problem comes from the timer / watchdog
/ GPIO which glxpcib activates, or if I should try to do a BIOS
upgrade of the ALIX board to the latest revision.
Has anyone experience the same? How did you solve it? Any suggestions
what I should try next?
Thanks,
Rolf
A) Console output when booting unmodified GENERIC -current kernel
PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.98
640 KB Base Memory
261120 KB Extended Memory
01F0 Master 848A SanDisk SDCFH-1024
Phys C/H/S 1986/16/63 Log C/H/S 993/32/63
Using drive 0, partition 3;
Loading;...
probing: pc0 com0 pci mem[640K 255M a20=on]
disk: hd0
>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01
-
com0: 38400 baud
switching console to com0
[ using 593308 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights
reserved.
Copyright (c) 1995-2008 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.
http://www.OpenBSD.org
OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #647: Fri Jan 11 02:06:06 MST 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery>
cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS ("AuthenticAMD"
586-class) 499 MHz
cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,CFLUSH,MMX
real mem = 268009472 (255MB)
avail mem = 251240448 (239MB)
RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery>
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 10/31/07, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
0xfcdda
acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xe0000/0xb000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "AMD Geode LX" rev 0x31
glxsb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "AMD Geode LX Crypto" rev 0x00: RNG
AES
vr0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 10,
address 00:0d:b9:12:6c:10
ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI
0x004063, model 0x0034
vr1 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 11,
address 00:0d:b9:12:6c:11
ukphy1 at vr1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI
0x004063, model 0x0034
vr2 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 12,
address 00:0d:b9:12:6c:12
ukphy2 at vr2 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI
0x004063, model 0x0034
ral0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Ralink RT2561" rev 0x00: irq 9,
address 00:08:a1:9c:32:c4
ral0: MAC/BBP RT2661B, RF RT2527
glxpcib0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "AMD CS5536 ISA" rev 0x03: rev 0,
32-bit 3579545Hz timer
B) dmesg after modification of kernel by running 'config -ef /bsd',
'disable pciglxb', 'quit'
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]# dmesg
OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #647: Fri Jan 11 02:06:06 MST 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS ("AuthenticAMD"
586-class) 499 MHz
cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,CFLUSH,MMX
real mem = 268009472 (255MB)
avail mem = 251240448 (239MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 10/31/07, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfcdda
acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xe0000/0xb000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "AMD Geode LX" rev 0x31
glxsb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "AMD Geode LX Crypto" rev 0x00: RNG AES
vr0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 10,
address 00:0d:b9:12:6c:10
ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI
0x004063, model 0x0034
vr1 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 11,
address 00:0d:b9:12:6c:11
ukphy1 at vr1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI
0x004063, model 0x0034
vr2 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 12,
address 00:0d:b9:12:6c:12
ukphy2 at vr2 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI
0x004063, model 0x0034
ral0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Ralink RT2561" rev 0x00: irq 9,
address 00:08:a1:9c:32:c4
ral0: MAC/BBP RT2661B, RF RT2527
pcib0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "AMD CS5536 ISA" rev 0x03
pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 2 "AMD CS5536 IDE" rev 0x01: DMA,
channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to comy
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFH-1024>
wd0: 4-sector PIO, LBA, 977MB, 2001888 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
"AMD CS5536 Audio" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 15 function 3 not configured
ohci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 4 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 15,
version 1.0, legacy support
ehci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 5 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 15
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 "AMD EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pccom0: console
usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1 "AMD OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
biomask e1ef netmask ffef ttymask ffef
mtrr: K6-family MTRR support (2 registers)
nvram: invalid checksum
softraid0 at root
root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
clock: unknown CMOS layout
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]# sysctl hw
hw.machine=i386
hw.model=Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS ("AuthenticAMD"
586-class)
hw.ncpu=1
hw.byteorder=1234
hw.physmem=268009472
hw.usermem=268005376
hw.pagesize=4096
hw.disknames=wd0
hw.diskcount=1
hw.cpuspeed=499
