Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:11:41 +0800 From: "Mars G Miro" <spry@anarchy.in.the.ph> To: "Gavin Atkinson" <gavin@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6-CORE Dunnington Message-ID: <f12f408a0810020111y759569ecuedcca1efa26d99bc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1222877744.29968.76.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <f12f408a0810010836p55e39f52k23e79fc46024dab@mail.gmail.com> <1222877744.29968.76.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 23:36 +0800, Mars G Miro wrote: >> Hiya >> >> Has anyone successfully tried installing and running FreeBSD on >> Intel's newest 6-CORE Dunnington? >> >> I was able to install 200809-CURRENT on it but after recompiling >> the kernel (taking out WITNESS, INVARIANTS KGDB et al) I found out >> that I could not boot it anymore. What's weird is that I could not >> boot the same 200809-CURRENT CD that I used the first time. Just hangs >> on >> .... >> uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] >> uhci0: [ITHREAD] >> .... >> >> I've also tried installing via PXE and it always hangs on the above >> spot, even using a -CURRENT from Sept 26 and PXE-booting it. No go :-( > > Firstly, does it seem to be detecting all six CPUs correctly? Are you > able to reboot with the old kernel and put a verbose dmesg and the > output of "acpidump -dt" up on the web somewhere? It would also be > interesting to know if anything else is printed after the above when it > hangs on a verbose boot. > I can't be sure that it detects the 6 cores. I did get a dmesg prior to rebuilding the world on it but I didnt get it off the box as I was working on rebuilding the world. I tried rebooting w/ the old kernel as well as, like I said, the 200809-CURRENT CD but it just hangs. btw, this is a 4-CPU 6-core (4 Physical CPUs, 6 Cores each) > There was a report back in July about FreeBSD not discovering all the > CPUs on the board, but there was no mention of hanging on boot. > Yes. I read that thread. The OP said he had a chance to test the 6-core for a few hours. This box is in my hands for quite an indefinite amount of time ;-) Thanks. > Gavin > -- cheers mars
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