On 2011-12-09 10:10:18, Lev Serebryakov <lev_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Soekris ("famous" developer of small x86-compatible appliance-like > hardware) released *net6501* some time ago, which is based on Atom (E6xx) > CPU. It seems, that 64-bit version of Linux could run on it without problems. > But FreeBSD/amd64 can not. It stops after kernel detect some devices > without any errors or panics. Nicholas Esborn and I have been looking at this on soekris-tech and found that if you enable the optional MPSPEC mptable support in the kernel by adding "device mptable" to the GENERIC configuration and rebuild a kernel, you get a FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 amd64 kernel that works fine on the Soekris net6501 in 64-bit mode. The GENERIC 32-bit i386 kernel finds the mptable and works fine out of the box, without any changes or options. I don't know why "device mptable" is optional, but enabling it allows the net6501 to work with amd64. I assume it's too late to do something about this for 9.0-RELEASE? Cheers, Denis, fortin_at_acm.orgReceived on Sun Dec 11 2011 - 14:12:27 UTC
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