Re: FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP - SOLVED
2008/11/12 Eirik Øverby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, the issue below has been solved by a new BIOS for the server in question. I recently received a beta BIOS from Supermicro, after having reported the issue and done a bit of troubleshooting with them. The tip that helped the most was the boot-linux-first trick. Anyone who wants the BIOS may mail me privately; otherwise it'll likely be released by Supermicro in the not-too-distant future. Hi, I'd like the update since it's likely I'll get another of those machines soon. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP
Hi, Hi all, I try to run FreeBSD-7-AMD64 on a Quad Xeon (Xeon MP 7320) and 32GB RAM. The Board is a X7QC3 by supermicro and the installation is done on another system, updated and plugged to this system. So I have a drive with 7-STABLE compiled today. The last line I see from dmesg is vga0- then the system freezes. Anyone using a similar configuration or knows what could be wrong? I still have some days left to play with it, before this box gets shipped to the customer. This looks very, very similar to what I had once, on similar hardware (4x Xeon 7xxx, SuperMicro). I didn't find a solution and didn't bother since the box isn't intended for FreeBSD. I did find (by accident) a curious workaround: I booted Linux (I used Ubuntu 8.04 amd64 LiveCD - just to boot it, without installing), then rebooted and booted FreeBSD - worked every time, but it's obviously not a long-term solution. If you can also verify that this solves the problem, then someone might work with you to produce a patch. I just received four such servers, all intended for FreeBSD And I'm seeing exactly the same problem. I'm going to try booting Linux and then back into FreeBSD, but it's obviously not a solution. Anyone who might want to work on this can have a box like this to work on via remote KVM (including remote boot media capability) any time. I'm going to go poke the supplier and Supermicro for some updated firmware. Any progress on your end? Some additional info: Safe mode boot gets a bit further, to the point where it tries to mount/read from /dev/md0, but then hangs hard. /Eirik ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP
Don Bowman wrote: I tried putting a call to uhci_dumpregs() there, it hangs as well. So my assumption Is that a read to 0x3080 is hanging. Anyone have any suggestions? If the same thing that worked for me works for you (booting Linux before soft-rebooting into FreeBSD) than it would look like something isn't initialized right. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
RE: FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP
From Ivan Voras Don Bowman wrote: I tried putting a call to uhci_dumpregs() there, it hangs as well. So my assumption Is that a read to 0x3080 is hanging. Anyone have any suggestions? If the same thing that worked for me works for you (booting Linux before soft-rebooting into FreeBSD) than it would look like something isn't initialized right. I am focusing in on SMM emulation. http://www.ussg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0407.3/0688.html suggests something to me. What if I am executing this on a processor other than the boot processor, and the SMM code doesn't expect this? I'm not sure where I would try this patch in freebsd, but it seems promising. Ie I read 0xe090. This trips SMM for legacy(?). SMM is entered, does something, corrupts, leaves, and then a few instructions later I crash. The suggested workaround for this (different machine and OS) is to disable the legacy mode. FreeBSD seems to do this already I think, calling: pci_write_config(self, PCI_LEGSUP, PCI_LEGSUP_USBPIRQDEN, 2); in uhci_pci_attach() ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP
On Mon Aug 11 21:23:58 UTC 2008 John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 11 August 2008 11:25:01 am Michael Fuckner wrote: Hi all, I try to run FreeBSD-7-AMD64 on a Quad Xeon (Xeon MP 7320) and 32GB RAM. The Board is a X7QC3 by supermicro and the installation is done on another system, updated and plugged to this system. So I have a drive with 7-STABLE compiled today. The last line I see from dmesg is vga0- then the system freezes. Anyone using a similar configuration or knows what could be wrong? I still have some days left to play with it, before this box gets shipped to the customer. It is probably waiting for a config intr hook to complete. rwatson@ recently added some code to HEAD to help with debugging hangs there. That patch probably applies directly to 7.x and would be helpful in determining what is hanging. So I have debugged this down (same board), using 32-bit kernel. I have found it is hanging reading from the UHCI controller (register 0x10). I am using HEAD. In uhci_root_ctrl_start(), in case C(UR_GET_STATUS, UT_READ_CLASS_OTHER):, it does: x = UREAD2(sc, port); now, this translates into a read from 0x3090 [UHCI base address is 0x3080, offset is 0x10 for the PORTSC0 register. I debugged this down by putting printf() in. I can't really fathom why that read would hang, does anyone have a suggestion on where to go next debugging? The chipset on this board is 631xESB/632xESB ICH. I tried putting a call to uhci_dumpregs() there, it hangs as well. So my assumption Is that a read to 0x3080 is hanging. Anyone have any suggestions? System has 4 XEON MP processors, Intel 7300 chipset, 1GB of RAM, motherboard is described http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon7000/7300/X7QC3.cfm The IPMI is not installed. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP
Simon wrote: Are you trying to run a generic kernel, if not, have you tried? -Simon Yes, I am trying to boot GENERIC. Michael! ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP
Hi all, I try to run FreeBSD-7-AMD64 on a Quad Xeon (Xeon MP 7320) and 32GB RAM. The Board is a X7QC3 by supermicro and the installation is done on another system, updated and plugged to this system. So I have a drive with 7-STABLE compiled today. The last line I see from dmesg is vga0- then the system freezes. Anyone using a similar configuration or knows what could be wrong? I still have some days left to play with it, before this box gets shipped to the customer. Regards, Michael! ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP
On Monday 11 August 2008 11:25:01 am Michael Fuckner wrote: Hi all, I try to run FreeBSD-7-AMD64 on a Quad Xeon (Xeon MP 7320) and 32GB RAM. The Board is a X7QC3 by supermicro and the installation is done on another system, updated and plugged to this system. So I have a drive with 7-STABLE compiled today. The last line I see from dmesg is vga0- then the system freezes. Anyone using a similar configuration or knows what could be wrong? I still have some days left to play with it, before this box gets shipped to the customer. It is probably waiting for a config intr hook to complete. rwatson@ recently added some code to HEAD to help with debugging hangs there. That patch probably applies directly to 7.x and would be helpful in determining what is hanging. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP
Michael Fuckner wrote: Hi all, I try to run FreeBSD-7-AMD64 on a Quad Xeon (Xeon MP 7320) and 32GB RAM. The Board is a X7QC3 by supermicro and the installation is done on another system, updated and plugged to this system. So I have a drive with 7-STABLE compiled today. The last line I see from dmesg is vga0- then the system freezes. Anyone using a similar configuration or knows what could be wrong? I still have some days left to play with it, before this box gets shipped to the customer. This looks very, very similar to what I had once, on similar hardware (4x Xeon 7xxx, SuperMicro). I didn't find a solution and didn't bother since the box isn't intended for FreeBSD. I did find (by accident) a curious workaround: I booted Linux (I used Ubuntu 8.04 amd64 LiveCD - just to boot it, without installing), then rebooted and booted FreeBSD - worked every time, but it's obviously not a long-term solution. If you can also verify that this solves the problem, then someone might work with you to produce a patch. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
