From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 20:50:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1ED116A41F; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:50:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD67E43D6B; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:50:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP (SSL) id IBA74465; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:50:21 -0800 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 1E7B45D04; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:50:19 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.0.4 To: John Baldwin In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:52:34 EST." <200511291452.35400.jhb@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:50:19 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20051129205019.1E7B45D04@ptavv.es.net> Cc: David Kelly , freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Worked in RELENG_5, fails in RELENG_6 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: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:50:46 -0000 > On Monday 28 November 2005 10:46 pm, David Kelly wrote: > > On Nov 28, 2005, at 7:13 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Saturday 26 November 2005 08:07 pm, David Kelly wrote: > > >> Per instructions at > > >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi- > > >> debug.html > > >> > > >> System is Dell Poweredge 400SC, BIOS revision A06. Boot panics > > >> with ACPI > > >> enabled. > > >> > > >> boot -v: > > >> [too much to type] > > >> ACPI-0237 *** Error: Incorrect table signature - wanted [FACS] > > >> found [ ] > > >> ACPI-0359 *** Error: Could not get/install the FACS, AE_BAD_SIGNATURE > > >> ACPI-0191 ... > > >> ACPI-0213 ... > > >> ... > > >> panic: Using MADT but ACPI doesn't work. > > >> > > >> Have not figured out how to "boot -v" with ACPI disabled. That > > >> would be > > >> a nice little thing to add to chapter 11.16.1 of the Handbook. > > > > > > At the loader prompt, do: > > > > > > 'set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1' > > > > > > and then 'boot' or 'boot -v'. > > > > Downloaded and FLASHed BIOS from A06 to Dell's latest, A09 this > > evening. No improvement. Also built and installed a new kernel from > > cvsup this afternoon. No improvement. > > But 5.4 works fine with ACPI enabled? This is the machine that even acpidump > chokes on, yes? Does acpidump work ok on 5.4? > > > A curious thing is with HT disabled in BIOS FreeBSD still lists > > hyperthreading in the CPU capabilities. > > Not curious at all. The BIOS setting just has the BIOS mark HTT CPUs as > disabled in the ACPI MADT table (usually HTT CPUs aren't even listed in the > MP Table). > > > Oh, and apparently the dmesg buffer isn't big enough to hold > > everything "boot -v" wants to say. Surely there is a way to make it > > bigger? > > Well, using a serial console is the best method, but there is also a kernel > option for increasing the message buffer size documented in sys/conf/NOTES. Take a look at /var/run/dmesg.boot. (Of course, this does not survive a reboot.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634