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Date:      Wed, 7 Jan 2004 13:07:40 -0500
From:      "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu>
To:        <obrien@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: AMD64 support in 5.x versions
Message-ID:  <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8DB368C@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>

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Yes it looks like this exact problem with other broadcom chipsets was =
'fixed' around July. The firmware initialization is timing out so you =
have to give it more time :).

-Will

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David O'Brien [mailto:obrien@freebsd.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 12:57 PM
> To: Will Saxon
> Cc: Adriaan de Groot; freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org; Michael J. Pelletier
> Subject: Re: AMD64 support in 5.x versions
>=20
>=20
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:43:54PM -0500, Will Saxon wrote:
> > I downloaded the 5.2-RC2 AMD64 miniinst ISO to try on a MSI K8T800
> > based dual opteron system today. I found that the system=20
> panicked when
> > I used ACPI, and without ACPI the onboard broadcom ethernet is not
> > initialized correctly (something about return type/code of 6 I
> > believe). This may or may not be AMD64 related.
>=20
> I've seen this on quad Opteron servers in my lab, but I haven't had a
> chance to keep one down (ie, not running Linux) for long=20
> enough to debug
> it.  The bge(4) maintainer suggested finding the delay=20
> statements in the
> driver and adding another "0" to them.
>=20



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