Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 available

Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 06:37:30PM -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> 
>> I'm having great difficulty with 5.2.1-RC2. I installed from an ISO just
>> this afternoon. Getting the installer running wasn't easy. I tried all of
>> the usual tricks that have worked for me in the past under 5.1-RELEASE
>> and 5.2-RELEASE:
>> 
>>    - set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
>>    - disabling ACPI
>> 
>> But none of that helped. Without ACPI, my kernel would panic before
>> starting sysinstall's device detection (somewhere before the keyboard
>> probe). And WITH ACPI it would get further - to the sysinstall device
>> detection screen, but promptly panic. Finally, I got it to install
>> 5.2.1-RC2 by selecting "safe mode" from the loader menu.
> 
> We can't do much without at least a transcription of the panic.
> 
>> hw.ata.atapi_dma=1
>> 
>> Perhaps my hw.ata.atapi_dma line is breaking things?
> 
> Certainly possible, because that's non-default and unsupported by a
> lot of hardware.

:) It's supported just fine on my hardware. It worked in 5.1-RELEASE and
5.2-RELEASE. And it's working now in 5.2.1-RC2.

I'm writing this on the 5.2.1-RC2 kernel. I finally got it booting by
manually executing these commands at the loader prompt:

set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
set hint.apic.0.disabled=1

I guess this is OK, but I never had to set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 before.
So I suppose it could be considered a regression.

In addition, APM suspend/resume seems to be even more broken than it was in 5.2-RELEASE.
I can't get the machine to come back from suspend no matter what I do now, whereas
I used to be able to get it to resume if I booted with `boot-vD` in 5.2-RELEASE, and
under 5.1-RELEASE I could get suspend/resume working with both APM *AND* ACPI.

Also, setting ACPI_LOAD="NO" in /boot/loader.conf seems to be broken in 5.2.1-RC2.
The loader will load acpi.ko regardless, unless explicitly told to not load it at
the boot prompt with:

    unset ACPI_LOAD
    set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1

Thanks.

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