Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:43:23 +0100 From: "Ryszard Czekaj" <rychoo@freeshell.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for Tests] PAT issue on Apple hardware Message-ID: <139d3be1f703fb441913c75af83e4ae9.squirrel@wm.sdf.org> In-Reply-To: <20101121120025.45ED810656DE@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20101121120025.45ED810656DE@hub.freebsd.org>
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<quote who="freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org"> > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:32:34 +0100 > From: RM <reuf_m@hotmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Call for Tests] PAT issue on Apple hardware > To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP113BC1415DB82B5A90277AFF93B0@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed; > delsp=yes > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:54:21 +0100, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:30 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote: >>> On Monday 15 November 2010 08:36 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote: >>> > Often times I hear complaints like "my Mac hangs after upgrading >>> > to 8.1" or "snapshot CD hangs on my brand new Mac". I know some >>> > of these complaints started happening when we switched to new PAT >>> > layout. It is so puzzling because it never happened on non-Apple >>> > hardware, AFAIK. I really like to fix this problem but I cannot >>> > afford a Mac. :-P >>> > >>> > If you are one of those lucky people, please test the attached >>> > patch and report your hardware model and any improvement or >>> > regression. >>> > >>> > Also, I added a new tunable "vm.pmap.pat_works" so that you can >>> > turn it off from loader (i.e., "set vm.pmap.pat_works=0") and >>> > restore old behaviour without recompiling a new kernel. >>> >>> I revised this patch to make it more robust. >>> >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/pat-current.diff >>> >>> Also, I prepared a patch for stable/8. If you have recent Apple >>> hardware and it hangs with 8.1 or stable/8, please test this patch. >>> >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/pat-stable.diff >> >> Anyone? I don't want to commit it blindly. :-( > > It works for me ! I have an iMac9,1 (Core2 Duo 2.93 GHz and nVidia GT9200) > > This is the first time it boots on FreeBSD 8.x (8.1-STABLE) > > Thank you ! > It works for me, too ;) FreeBSD sadako.czekaj.net.pl 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Nov 21 19:34:21 CET 2010 root@sadako.czekaj.net.pl:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SADAKO i386 MacBookPro1,2 Model No A1151 geekbench (with X): before = 1168 after = 1253 (http://browse.geekbench.ca/user/rychoo/profile) Greetings, RYCHoo -- http://CzeKaj.net.pl/ +48 882723907 +31 617049926
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