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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:59:00 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
Subject:   Re: ACPI instability on Sony VAIOs?
Message-ID:  <3DAB13F4.8DC3491F@mindspring.com>
References:  <XFMail.20021014144018.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:
> On 14-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Will Andrews wrote:
> >> Is anyone else seeing -CURRENT unable to boot on Sony VAIOs
> >> running the newest -CURRENT?  I get panics when it goes anywhere
> >> near ACPI, and it drops into the debugger.  Moving acpi.ko out of
> >> the way allows it to go further, but then it hangs after it loads
> >> the keyboard controller...
> >
> > Also:
> >
> >       options DISABLE_PSE
> >       options DISABLE_PG_G
> >
> > The CPU in these machines has 128 rather than 16 TLB entries.
> 
> *sigh*, this is not related to his problem.  I think the ACPI PCI
> link code has a bug in that it tries to free memory it has not
> allocated (including actual error messages and a trace from ddb()
> could help verify this) and has nothing to do with the TLB on the
> CPU.

He doesn't load the ACPI; from the end of the above that I quoted:

	"Moving acpi.ko out of the way allows it to go further,
	 but then it hangs after it loads the keyboard controller..."

FWIW, not loading the ACPI *AND* compiling the kernel with those
options fixes the problem on my personal Sony VAIO PCG-XG29.

-- Terry

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