Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Since I need it in production, I'll try i386 6.2-release+PAE... Ok, PAE uniprocessor kernel boots fine, finds all the memory but I can't create (clone) a vlan device (ifconfig vlan0 create). It fails with an error in SIOCIFCREATE. Since creating vlan0 worked in amd64 mode

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Since I need it in production, I'll try i386 6.2-release+PAE... Ok, PAE uniprocessor kernel boots fine, finds all the memory but I can't create (clone) a vlan device (ifconfig vlan0 create). It fails with an error in SIOCIFCREATE. Since creating

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Vivek Khera wrote: On Mar 7, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Sam Baskinger wrote: The 1950s that I have (IIRC as I installed them a few months ago) hang at about the same location when ACPI is enabled. I'll see if I can't pull one down and recreate the behavior. I should note that I'm running something

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Scott Long wrote: Do you not have 'device apic' in your config? Hmm, no. This is the generic SMP kernel (amd64) and grepping the sys/amd64/conf directory for apic doesn't give any useful results, not even in the NOTES file. apic device is unknown on amd64. I see the

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Continuing my problems with the IBM blade: Booting with ACPI module enabled (btw. live boot CD with sysinstall doesn't load ACPI, but the installed system does?) hangs the system somewhere after first USB bus is found (booting verbose doesn't show any new lines before or

SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Continuing my problems with the IBM blade: Booting with ACPI module enabled (btw. live boot CD with sysinstall doesn't load ACPI, but the installed system does?) hangs the system somewhere after first USB bus is found (booting verbose doesn't show any new lines before or after this step). It

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-07 Thread Sam Baskinger
Adding a datapoint: Dell 1950s exhibit similar behaviour but have 2 cores in a single physical CPU. Hope this helps the discussion along. Sam Baskinger Software Engineer Lumeta - Securing the Network in the Face of Change Ivan Voras wrote: Continuing my problems with the IBM blade: Booting

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 2.2 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 ohci0: OHCI (generic) USB controller port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xf9fff000-0xf9ff irq 3 at device 3.0 on pci0 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support To add more info: SMP+ACPI kernel hangs here

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-07 Thread Karl Denninger
H I have a Dual-core (one physical package) Intel motherboard machine here that's working fine (6.2-STABLE) FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #3: Wed Feb 28 16:11:56 CST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KSD-SMP kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 kern.smp.maxcpus: 16 kern.smp.active: 1

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-07 Thread Scott Long
Do you not have 'device apic' in your config? Scott Ivan Voras wrote: Continuing my problems with the IBM blade: Booting with ACPI module enabled (btw. live boot CD with sysinstall doesn't load ACPI, but the installed system does?) hangs the system somewhere after first USB bus is found

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-07 Thread Scott Long
I've had no problem getting FreeBSD 6 to boot on Dell 1950 and 2950 machines. Where does it hang for you, and what changes have you made to your kernel config? Scott Sam Baskinger wrote: Adding a datapoint: Dell 1950s exhibit similar behaviour but have 2 cores in a single physical CPU.

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-07 Thread Sam Baskinger
The 1950s that I have (IIRC as I installed them a few months ago) hang at about the same location when ACPI is enabled. I'll see if I can't pull one down and recreate the behavior. I should note that I'm running something after 6.2-RELEASE. Again, I'll try to recreate and get some data from

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Scott Long wrote: Do you not have 'device apic' in your config? Hmm, no. This is the generic SMP kernel (amd64) and grepping the sys/amd64/conf directory for apic doesn't give any useful results, not even in the NOTES file. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-07 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 7, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Sam Baskinger wrote: The 1950s that I have (IIRC as I installed them a few months ago) hang at about the same location when ACPI is enabled. I'll see if I can't pull one down and recreate the behavior. I should note that I'm running something after 6.2-RELEASE.