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Date:      Mon, 5 Nov 2007 16:34:32 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com>
Cc:        amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic: no BIOS SMAP info from loader
Message-ID:  <200711051634.32518.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <499c70c0711051238o2463bbefx56856dfdb31f31cf@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6eb82e0711010634x5f70e974i78c505d8eda24223@mail.gmail.com> <200711051415.53489.jhb@freebsd.org> <499c70c0711051238o2463bbefx56856dfdb31f31cf@mail.gmail.com>

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On Monday 05 November 2007 03:38:52 pm Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2007 10:15 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 05 November 2007 11:48:07 am Bob Johnson wrote:
> > > On 11/5/07, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > My web searches on this indicated that when HP first introduced these
> > > > systems, they had the same problem with Linux. HP provided a patch
> > > > that allows recent Linux kernels to boot. Older i386 FreeBSDs also can
> > > > not boot on my HP dc7700. So it appears someone has already fixed this
> > > > for i386, but no one has moved it to AMD64.
> > > >
> > > > I don't remember which i386 versions work or don't work, but I can
> > > > start booting install disks and find out.
> > >
> > > Hmmm. Maybe I should retract that. I cannot find an i386 install CD
> > > that won't boot on it. I've tried 7.0-BETA1, 6.2-STABLEsnap200708,
> > > 6.2-RC1, 6.1-RELEASE, 6.0-BETA2, 6.0-BETA1, 5.3-RC1 (hangs probing
> > > ATA1), 4.5-RELEASE, and 4.3-RELEASE. But I thought I remembered being
> > > unable to boot some i386 install CDs in it.
> >
> > Without an SMAP, FreeBSD/i386 is only going to find about 64M of RAM on 
the
> > box though.  Do you know what the patch was that HP provided for Linux?  I
> > wasn't able to find it.  If you disable ACPI is FreeBSD/i386 able to see 
all
> > of the RAM in the box?
> >
> > --
> > John Baldwin
> 
> John,
> 
> This one?
> 
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8833
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118809338631160&w=2

That is interesting, but not related in this case.  This is long, long after 
getting a copy of the SMAP.

-- 
John Baldwin



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