Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:41:02 -0500 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server? Message-ID: <201011161941.19106.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20101116235526.GA24069@johnny.reilly.home> References: <20101115045549.GB96011@johnny.reilly.home> <201011161836.18526.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20101116235526.GA24069@johnny.reilly.home>
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On Tuesday 16 November 2010 06:55 pm, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:36:16PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > On Sunday 14 November 2010 11:55 pm, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > Oh: the other thing about this system: I can't warm-start > > > it, have to power down and then manually hit the power-on > > > button. Attempting to reboot leaves the console sitting at > > > something like "Stopping other CPUs" forever. I assume that > > > this is a BIOS config problem, but haven't found the right > > > control knob yet. I've tried turning hyperthreading on and > > > off: no difference. Reading the kernel code around that > > > message suggests that rebooting involves getting the keyboard > > > controller to send an NMI, and I wonder if the legacy-free > > > no-keyboard state of my system is having an effect on that, > > > too? > > > > You may try "sysctl hw.acpi.handle_reboot=1". If it works, just > > add it in /etc/sysctl.conf. > > > > FYI, it is automatically set since r213755 and MFC'd to stable/8 > > as r215006. > > I've just checked, and my system has that sysctl knob set to 1 > already. I don't know how long that has been the case, though: > perhaps it has only been since my last boot anyway? I will > give reboot another try when I am next in the same room as the > machine... I guess you already have r215006, then. :-) If it appeared automagically, that means your system supports the ACPI reset register. If you still have reboot issues, please let me know. > I still track -stable with csup, because I believed that to be > the officially preferred method. I believe so. > Is it OK to track directly with svn, now? Me, not sure. > More specifically, how can one correlate svn revision numbers > against a csup-extracted source tree? Unfortunately I don't see any easy way to find correlation ATM. :-( Jung-uk Kim
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