Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:49:13 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled Message-ID: <XFMail.20031124134913.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <23528.1069709458@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On 24-Nov-2003 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <XFMail.20031124130939.jdp@polstra.com>, John Polstra writes: >>I put kern.timecounter.hardware="i8254" into /boot/loader.conf, but >>it didn't make any difference. Are you sure it even works from >>loader.conf? From the sources it looks like this is a sysctl rather >>than a tunable. I could change it to a tunable, though, if you >>think it's worthwhile. > > It would be rather complicated to make it a tunable. Far easier to > go into the ACPI timecounter and just give it a negative quality, > that will disable it. Thanks for the tip! I did as you suggested, but it didn't cure the hanging problem. John
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