[nycbug-talk] APU

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, January 09, 2014 8:03:52 pm Jared Davenport wrote:
> 
> On 01/09/2014 05:50 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday, January 09, 2014 02:40:06 PM Jared Davenport wrote:
> >> On 01/09/2014 10:13 AM, George Rosamond wrote:
> >>> Jared Davenport:
> >>>> On 12/19/2013 10:45 AM, George Rosamond wrote:
> >>>>> Jared Davenport:
> >>>>>> On 12/18/2013 11:45 PM, Jim B. wrote:
> >>>>>>> * Jared Davenport <jared at thegridsource.com>
> >>>>>>> [2013-12-18
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 22:57]:
> >>>>>>>> On 12/18/2013 09:11 PM, Jim B. wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> * Jared Davenport <jared at thegridsource.com>
> >>>>>>>>> [2013-12-18
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> 12:20]:
> >>>>>>> [snip]
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks Jim,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I went ahead and added those lines.  Here is the
> >>>>>>>> verbose
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> output: http://pastebin.com/DUhrt8uP
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Ok, I didn't see anything odd.  I would note however
> >>>>>>> that FreeBSD 10-RCx is still undergoing fixes prior to
> >>>>>>> release.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> pfsense 2.1 (latest stable version) is actually based
> >>>>>>> on FreeBSD 8.3 according to the release notes.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> If all you want to do is get your board to run FreeBSD,
> >>>>>>> try
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> installing a slightly older version - 9.1, 9.2, or
> >>>>>>> even
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 8.3 directly.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Releases for amd64 are at:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Good call on that.  I tried the same configuration, with
> >>>>>> FreeBSD 8.4, and it worked!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> FreeBSD 8.4 dmesgd:
> >>>>>> http://www.nycbug.org/?action=dmesgd&dmesgid=2505
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks for posting JD!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> FreeBSD 9.2 and FreeBSD 10 were a no-go.  I'm still not
> >>>>>> sure why.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Well, the obvious to me would be using mbr v gpt.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What does the BIOS look like?  That could very much
> >>>>> matter.
> >>>>
> >>>> That very well could be it.  The BIOS says it's coreboot
> >>>> 2.08.00,
> >>>>
> >>>> specifically,
> >>>>
> >>>> coreboot-EDK_2.08.00_20130410_221-1434-g871c820-dirty
> >>>>
> >>>> I've added the BIOS message here:
> >>>> http://pastebin.com/111eTfZm
> >>>>
> >>>>> also, for troubleshooting, I believe that these two should
> >>>>> help in the /etc/rc.conf:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> rc_debug="YES" rc_info="YES"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I need to get my hands on one or more of these too...
> >>>
> >>> Reraising the thread...
> >>>
> >>> Did you order through a reseller in the US or through PC
> >>> Engines directly?  Pricing?
> >>>
> >>> I have a bunch of place I could start using these in the very
> >>> near-term.. replacing a lot of older Soekrii and Alixen.
> >>
> >> PC-Engines directly.  This is beta hardware and isn't
> >> production-ready quite yet.  There will be a few changes to the
> >> final version.
> >>
> >> For instance, moving from the AMD T40N to the T40E, to save power
> >> and heat.  The current version, I'm told, has problems with heat
> >> dissipation, though I've not experienced any issues first-hand.
> >
> > Does 9.2 still hang on boot?  If so, can you get a verbose dmesg
> > from 9.2 and 'devinfo -u' and 'devinfo -rv' output from 8.4?
> 
> Sorry for the long wait,
> 
> Here are the outputs:
> 
> devinfo -rv
>   http://pastebin.com/QYKd6Mvq
> 
> devinfo -u
>   http://pastebin.com/rUgPgGkm
> 
> root@:~ # uname -a
> FreeBSD  8.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE #0 r251259: Sun Jun  2
> 21:26:57 UTC 2013
> root at bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

Ahh, the BIOS is just broken.  For the pcib0 device, it is claiming
the entire PCI memio window as a consumer when it should be a resource 
producer.  Note that it got this correct for I/O ports, but not
memory.

Do you have the acpidump handy?

-- 
John Baldwin