Re: ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-30 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Not to belabor this thread too much more, but if you peruse the openchrome-users mailing list for a bit, you will see that these boards are developing a reputation for hard lockups under linux, so it is not just me. The developing consesnus over there is that the only way to prevent lockups is to

Re: ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-29 Thread Dimitry Andric
Mark Zimmerman wrote: I almost didn't submit this because there were no outright failures, but then I noticed that with acpi enabled, the hw.setperf sysctl is missing. Without acpi, it is present and works properly. This is because the traditional EST mechanism is currently disabled when ACPI

Re: ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-29 Thread Dimitry Andric
Mark Zimmerman wrote: You will notice the sucky DMA of the Jetway board in all of them. ... wd0a: aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 671456 of 671456-0 (wd0 bn 5571281; cn 5527 tn 1 sn 2), retrying wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 4 wd0(pciide1:0:0): using

Re: ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-29 Thread Marco Peereboom
Or missing interrupts... On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:29:52PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: Mark Zimmerman wrote: You will notice the sucky DMA of the Jetway board in all of them. ... wd0a: aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 671456 of 671456-0 (wd0 bn 5571281; cn 5527 tn 1

ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-28 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: I almost didn't submit this because there were no outright failures, but then I noticed that with acpi enabled, the hw.setperf sysctl is missing. Without acpi, it is present and works properly. Anyhow, here are the four dmesgs in case they are illuminating. You will notice the sucky

Re: ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-28 Thread Travers Buda
Mark, This is why: $ grep cpu /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC cpu0at mainbus? #acpicpu* at acpi? The acpicpu driver provides support for extracting processor power and performance levels from ACPI tables. This information can be used to throttle processor speed to

Re: ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-28 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:52:08 -0700 Mark Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings: I almost didn't submit this because there were no outright failures, but then I noticed that with acpi enabled, the hw.setperf sysctl is missing. Without acpi, it is present and works properly.

Re: ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-28 Thread Travers Buda
You're not getting hw.setperf with ACPI enabled because ACPI and APM don't and shouldn't coexist. ACPI has a hw.setperf mechanism, but you don't have it enabled in your kernel (I don't know if it's working yet.) Travers Buda On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:15:13 -0700 Mark Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]