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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:34:24 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Larry Baird <lab@gta.com>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, Idwer Vollering <vidwer@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: ACPI issues with PC engines APU beta board
Message-ID:  <531E21D0.8000409@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <20140310200313.GB67247@gta.com>
References:  <CAPp9OrnmOYtAtqmC4wtHXu4fkWEnVeiDS4LAASO-n%2BPWZtHqag@mail.gmail.com> <20140303154834.GA5864@gta.com> <531E1742.2020906@sentex.net> <20140310200313.GB67247@gta.com>

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On 3/10/2014 4:03 PM, Larry Baird wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 03:49:22PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>> On 3/3/2014 10:48 AM, Larry Baird wrote:
>>>> This beta board runs coreboot, which is GPL'ed software. This means that it
>>>> is possible to submit a contribution that lets you boot FreeBSD 9.2 and 10.
>>>>
>>>> Working with PC Engines to come up with a solution is the right way.
>>>>
>>>> FWIW, I can boot FreeBSD 9.2 just fine on amd64 hardware (ASUS F2A85-M)
>>>> that also starts with coreboot.
>>> FreeBSD has working on the issue from two directions.
>>>
>>> 1) John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> has made software changes to FreeBSD
>>> head that work around the issue (http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&sortby=date&revision=261243).  This issue was to be MFCed a few weeks back.
>>> I am sure that John will MFC it at some point.
>>>
>>> 2) I worked with Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> to develop BIOS patches to
>>> give to PC Engines to provide back to SAGE.  I received an updated BIOS
>>> with this change the end of last week.
>>
>> Hi,
>> 	I just got one of these boards to evaluate.  I was trying to load the
>> watchdog, but no luck.  There seem to be a few other errors too
>>
>> amdsbwd0: ResetStatus0 = 0xf9
>> amdsbwd0: ResetStatus1 = 0x0b
>> amdsbwd0: memory base address = 0xfec000f0
>> amdsbwd0: <AMD SB8xx Watchdog Timer> at iomem
>> 0xfec000f0-0xfec000f3,0xfec000f4-0xfec000f7 on isa0
>> amdsbwd0: bus_alloc_resource for ctrl failed
>> device_attach: amdsbwd0 attach returned 6
>>
>> USB seems to have some issues as well
>>
>> device_attach: pcib4 attach returned 6
>> ohci0: <AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB controller> at device 20.5 on pci0
>> ohci0: 0x1000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffff).
>> ohci0: Could not map memory
>> device_attach: ohci0 attach returned 6
>> pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 21.0 on pci0
>> pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4
>> ohci0: <AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB controller> at device 22.0 on pci0
>> ohci0: 0x1000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffff).
>> ohci0: Could not map memory
>> device_attach: ohci0 attach returned 6
>> ehci0: <AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB 2.0 controller> at device 22.2 on pci0
>> ehci0: 0x100 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffff).
>> ehci0: Could not map memory
>> device_attach: ehci0 attach returned 6
>> acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
>> pmtimer0 on isa0
>>
>> not sure of the NIC errors are issues too ?
>>
>> re2: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port
>> 0x3000-0x30ff at device 0.0 on pci3
>> re2: 0x1000 bytes of rid 0x18 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffff).
>> re2: 0x4000 bytes of rid 0x20 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffff).
>> re2: could not allocate MSI-X PBA resource
>> re2: Using 1 MSI message
>> re2: ASPM disabled
>> re2: Chip rev. 0x2c000000
>> re2: MAC rev. 0x00200000
>> miibus2: <MII bus> on re2
>> rgephy2: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus2
>> rgephy2:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX,
>> 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master,
>> 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow,
>> 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
>> re2: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:33:11:c6
>>
>> Start bios (version ?-20131224_111227-ubuntubuilderx64)
>> CPU Mhz=1000
>>
>> 10.0-STABLE FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE #2 r262153 i386
> You will need to either update the BIOS or patch FreeBSD 10.  The
> patch associated with:
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&sortby=date&revision=261243
> applies cleanly to FreeBSD 10. The latest BIOS from PC engines for the APU
> board is very noisy when it boots.  Hopefully the code change will get MFCed
> now that the APU board is generally available:
>      http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm

Where can I find the latest BIOS ?  Its not on the website

Any reason why this has not been MFC'd ? Is there a downside to having 
it applied / running with it ?


	---Mike

>
> Larry
>
>


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