Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD/amd64 on Net6501 working!
* Soren Kristensen so...@soekris.com [2011-12-11 10:00:05]: ACPI is on my long list of things to do, I'll better move it up, the basic ACPI stuff needed is not that complicated. The ACPI Power is really complicated, but I have no plan to support that, as active power management is not something you want or need on a always on platform Would the ACPI Power support also cover the CPU speed/power throttling? Matt -- Phased plasma rifle in a forty-watt range? Hey, just what you see, pal. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD/amd64 on Net6501 working!
On 12/13/2011 04:33 AM, Matt Dainty wrote: * Soren Kristensen so...@soekris.com [2011-12-11 10:00:05]: ACPI is on my long list of things to do, I'll better move it up, the basic ACPI stuff needed is not that complicated. The ACPI Power is really complicated, but I have no plan to support that, as active power management is not something you want or need on a always on platform Would the ACPI Power support also cover the CPU speed/power throttling? ACPI can be used to provide CPU P-state throttling, but in the case of Intel CPUs, I think SpeedStep is probably a better/easier way to go. Most OSes support it, as long as they can identify the CPU. On FreeBSD, the eist driver already sees that the CPUs support SpeedStep, but doesn't attach due to not having the CPU in its configuration table. -nick Matt -- n...@desert.net - all messages cryptographically signed signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD/amd64 on Net6501 working!
Hi Nick List, Nicholas Esborn wrote: From what I have seen, mptable and atpic support are both designated as legacy capabilities on FreeBSD. The FreeBSD developers may not want to re-enable them in GENERIC. Support for non-ACPI configurations could become increasingly tenuous. With luck, the required options will remain available for some time to come, but it seems like an ACPI BIOS would be a very positive development for the longevity of the Net6501 with modern operating systems. ACPI is on my long list of things to do, I'll better move it up, the basic ACPI stuff needed is not that complicated. The ACPI Power is really complicated, but I have no plan to support that, as active power management is not something you want or need on a always on platform Best Regards, Soren Kristensen CEO Chief Engineer Soekris Engineering, Inc. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD/amd64 on Net6501 working!
On 12/10/2011 06:07 AM, Denis Fortin wrote: On 2011-12-08 08:55, Aragon Gouveiaara...@phat.za.net wrote: On 12/07/11 23:00, Soren Kristensen wrote: I don't have the knowledge to find out where and why FreeBSD stops, but if some FreeBSD hacker can go down and tell me why, I will do what I can do fix it if the BIOS need a little adjustment Considering all the ACPI error messages, I guess it's a problem there somewhere. The freebsd-acpi@ mailing list is a good place to seek ACPI wizards. :) If I try to boot FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 in verbose mode with amd64 and i386 and compare the boot messages side-by-side, there are as many error messages about ACPI with the (successful) i386 boot than with the (failed) amd64 boot. The amd64 boot ends with the following lines: panic: No usable event timer found! cpuid = 0 KDB: stack backtrace: #0 0x80867e4e at kdb_backtrace+0x5e #1 0x80832ab7 at panic+0x187 #2 0x80b5250b at cpu_initclocks_bsp+0x3cb #3 0x807e9ec0 at initclocks+0x20 #4 0x807e7507 at mi_startup+0x77 #5 0x8029f6ec at btext+0x2c Uptime: 1s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Whereas the i386 boot goes on at this same spot with: lapic: Divisor 2, Frequency 50001280 Hz Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec Somehow, the LAPIC timer is reported with the i386 boot thus: MPTable: Soekris net6501 Event timer LAPIC quality 400 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 1 core(s) x 2 HTT threads cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 1 but not on the amd64 boot. Also, the i386 reports early on: MP Configuration Table version 1.4 found at 0xc00fe110 and *not* the amd64 boot. Anyway, just some preliminary information in case it triggers an Ah-ha! with some of the list members. I was able to boot FreeBSD/amd64 9.0-RC3 just now. The key was to enable mptable and atpic support in the kernel. device atpic # Optional legacy pic support device mptable# Optional MPSPEC mptable support I also removed device acpi, but that may not have been necessary. -nick Cheers, Denis F. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- n...@desert.net - all messages cryptographically signed signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD/amd64 on Net6501 working!
On 2011-12-11 01:54, Nicholas Esborn wrote: I was able to boot FreeBSD/amd64 9.0-RC3 just now. The key was to enable mptable and atpic support in the kernel. device atpic # Optional legacy pic support device mptable # Optional MPSPEC mptable support I also removed device acpi, but that may not have been necessary. -nick This is excellent news. Based on your input and what I had found earlier, I made a couple of FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 kernels to play with the options, and I found that device mptable is needed for the FreeBSD/amd64 kernel to boot on the net6501. Anyway, it's good to know that we'll be able to build and use 64-bit kernels... but I doubt we can get device mptable enabled in GENERIC at this late stage of the 9.0 release cycle (we are at RC3). Cheers, Denis, for...@acm.org PS. Now onwards to find out why my USB 3.0 PCIe card is not working as expected. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD/amd64 on Net6501 working!
On 12/10/2011 11:04 PM, Denis Fortin wrote: On 2011-12-11 01:54, Nicholas Esborn wrote: I was able to boot FreeBSD/amd64 9.0-RC3 just now. The key was to enable mptable and atpic support in the kernel. device atpic # Optional legacy pic support device mptable # Optional MPSPEC mptable support I also removed device acpi, but that may not have been necessary. -nick This is excellent news. Based on your input and what I had found earlier, I made a couple of FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 kernels to play with the options, and I found that device mptable is needed for the FreeBSD/amd64 kernel to boot on the net6501. Anyway, it's good to know that we'll be able to build and use 64-bit kernels... but I doubt we can get device mptable enabled in GENERIC at this late stage of the 9.0 release cycle (we are at RC3). From what I have seen, mptable and atpic support are both designated as legacy capabilities on FreeBSD. The FreeBSD developers may not want to re-enable them in GENERIC. Support for non-ACPI configurations could become increasingly tenuous. With luck, the required options will remain available for some time to come, but it seems like an ACPI BIOS would be a very positive development for the longevity of the Net6501 with modern operating systems. -nick Cheers, Denis, for...@acm.org PS. Now onwards to find out why my USB 3.0 PCIe card is not working as expected. -- n...@desert.net - all messages cryptographically signed signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
