Re: device atpic to be deprecated?

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:42:40 -0500
John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 March 2006 03:05 am, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > While searching the mailing lists recently on an unrelated subject, I
> > happened across a message mentioning the intended removal of "device atpic"
> > in 7.0.  So, I tried building a kernel without it on my RELENG_6 amd64 box
> > (nVidia nForce 3 chipset) and discovered that it was unable to mount the
> > root slice.
> >
> > Naturally, I'm a little concerned about this.  :-)
> 
> Some more details would be handy. :)  Is your machine UP or SMP?

It's a uniprocessor box:

FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #4: Fri Mar 31 18:42:21 CST 2006
    conrads_at_serene.no-ip.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (1995.01-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0xf4a  Stepping = 10
  Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,
CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
  AMD Features=0xe0500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
real memory  = 1073479680 (1023 MB)
avail memory = 1026379776 (978 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <A M I  OEMAPIC >
ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
acpi0: <A M I OEMRSDT> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
(...)

> > Is the plan still in effect to abolish this device?
> 
> Yes, if it works for folks.

I'll do a few more test kernels in the days to come after each cvsup
and see if this problem persists, or if it may even turn out to have
been something completely unrelated.

Thanks for the interest.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads_at_cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"