Re: Enabling NUMA in BIOS stop booting FreeBSD

From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw_at_zxy.spb.ru>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:07:06 +0300
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 09:37:40PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:

> On 23-12-2016 20:30, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 08:16:39PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> > 
> >> On 23-12-2016 14:26, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 09:26:02PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 16-12-2016 00:57, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >>>>> heh, an updated BIOS that solves the problem will solve the problem. :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I think you have enough information to provide to supermicro. Ie,
> >>>>> "SMAP says X, when physical memory pages at addresses X are accessed,
> >>>>> they don't behave like memory, maybe something is wrong".
> >>>>>
> >>>>> All I can think of is some hack to add a blacklist for that region so
> >>>>> you can boot the unit. But it makes me wonder what else is going on.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have an X10DRL-iT with 256Gb and 2* 2630V4 available for testing until
> >>>> begin January. Started it on 11-RELEASE and upgraded to 12-CURRENT of
> >>>> 20-12-2016.
> >>>> Boots just fine, and seems to run OKE.
> >>>>
> >>>> If anything useful to test, just let me know.
> >>>
> >>> For touch issuse you must enable in BIOS both NUMA and Memory
> >>> Interleave below 4G.
> >>
> >> Numa was already on, but I cannot find the Memory Interleave option.
> > 
> > for X10DRi:
> > 
> > Advanced/Chipset Config/North Bridge/Memory Config/Socket Interleave below 4G
> 
> The only thing that could be this is:
> 	a7 mode,
> but that is already enabled.
> This speaks about a bit higher memory bandwidth.

In may case A7 immediately below 'Socket Interleave below 4G'

> On the PCIe page ther is something like:
> 	above 4G encoding
> but that will probably not be it.
> 
> --WjW
> 
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