RE: Intel SE7500WV2 not working with ACPI

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:02:56 -0500 (EST)
On 25-Nov-2003 Brooks Davis wrote:
> Since the interrupt changes, my dual Xeons based on the SE7500WV2 board
> don't work with ACPI.  Specificly, the onboard nics (em0 and em1)
> appear to not be recieving interupts.  Instead, they continiously get
> watchdog timeouts.  In a stock current, this is an instant panic.  With
> a minor fix to the watchdog function, the system sees to be more or less
> funcitonal other then not having a network.  Disabling ACPI makes the
> nics work.  I have updated the BIOS to the latest version[0].
> 
> I've included ACPI and non-ACPI dmesg output below.  What else is needed
> to diagnose this problem?  Any patches I should try?

Since acpi0 failed to probe, ACPI isn't used to route interrupts.  However,
the apic code expects ACPI to do that since it enumerated CPUs and I/O
APICs.  You are just going to have to disable ACPI for now.

> acpi0: <INTEL  SWV20   > on motherboard
>     ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_._REG] (Node 0xc29b4660),
> AE_NOT_EXIST
> acpi0: Could not initialise SystemIO handler: AE_NOT_EXIST
> device_probe_and_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6

If you can get this fixed, then you can re-enable ACPI again.

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Received on Wed Dec 03 2003 - 06:03:00 UTC

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