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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:42:51 -0700
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: -current hang during boot on SMP machine
Message-ID:  <20041201044251.GB43425@nargothrond.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041201044141.GA43425@nargothrond.kdm.org>
References:  <20041130035552.GA32924@nargothrond.kdm.org> <16812.29117.221988.730885@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20041201044141.GA43425@nargothrond.kdm.org>

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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 08:12:29 -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Have you tried disabling ACPI via hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" in
> /boot/loader.conf
> 
> The ACPI on these older machines is pretty bad.  I have a very similar
> SuperMicro machine w/o SCSI at work which runs 5.3-R fine w/ACPI
> disabled.  I discovered early in the 5.0 cycle that enabling ACPI
> would lead to a console message for each fxp0 interrupt..

That seems to get it working, thanks!  It looks like all the devices are
probed properly without ACPI.  Will I be missing anything important with
ACPI disabled?

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken@FreeBSD.org



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