From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 22:34:13 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7543106564A; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:34:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mavbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D1348FC0A; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:34:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so19383197fxm.13 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:34:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SMXQ68D5G9mA5X+CSAK6ia0oI079puEPyzr5EKjUUGo=; b=Xf5DFDLRHm2HSG+Zis+1RbHJ1+vd71Wdebu2GfKHfEte2johgBHNO63p+Nz9GB/CD7 9MHSCbrb/teC4G1XT7BNjcIFwaverB3KJdb+j/dOOnxDZmmeM6THjgeeujV6FhsA4hE9 Bj+zCBE3b0ARSEeD3uEBo5RQBEZUwKo2DD7U4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=YH/Wx2u1wUDdH0xnPp5KDapsiJFO1ReEJLvJ99sAsiItcRP54teiz7L9Oqr9NzrV/t SBFoofTcQfGVDmuvXcDX1OlcsvqDtBrSqAaB+uI63cjpzkICIhb54x/MkgLcgxsqneqQ A8l1KE73lO+XTxiFBBNHA+qWlc66vw1qAiYKE= Received: by 10.223.72.9 with SMTP id k9mr230521faj.93.1294698852089; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:34:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mavbook2.mavhome.dp.ua (pc.mavhome.dp.ua [212.86.226.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f24sm7176711fak.24.2011.01.10.14.34.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:34:10 -0800 (PST) Sender: Alexander Motin Message-ID: <4D2B8944.6030200@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:33:40 +0200 From: Alexander Motin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Arno J. Klaassen" References: <201101101500.45783.jhb@freebsd.org> <4D2B67E4.70907@FreeBSD.org> <201101101515.47127.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tyan S3992-E: hpet no longer working X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:34:13 -0000 Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > Sure .. that said, the BIOS I use is the last official release for this > board (Sept 2009) and not even a more recent beta-release is available. > > I would expect reporting a disabled device which cannot be enabled via > de BIOS a bug deserving a newer release. > > Anyway, this bug isn't very harmful for me, but the non-hpet > timecounters don't seem that fun either : > > # uptime > 10:27PM up 2 days, 5:44 > > # sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware kern.timecounter.choice > kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-safe > kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) i8254(0) ACPI-safe(850) dummy(-1000000) > > # vmstat -i | fgrep cpu: > cpu0:timer 38599321 199 > cpu6:timer 2151003 11 > cpu1:timer 7121075 36 > cpu3:timer 1808269 9 > cpu5:timer 3832463 19 > cpu2:timer 2399988 12 > cpu7:timer 2013444 10 > cpu4:timer 21630368 111 > > (default HZ ....) > > Maybe I should try downgrading the BIOS? So what here seems not funny to you? Lower timer interrupt rate is not a bug but feature of 9-CURRENT. -- Alexander Motin