From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 14 12: 0:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2200737B404; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:00:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B581F43EB1; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0078.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.78] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 181ARo-00073O-00; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:00:13 -0700 Message-ID: <3DAB13F4.8DC3491F@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:59:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, Will Andrews Subject: Re: ACPI instability on Sony VAIOs? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message