AMD64 support in 5.x versions

[Will Saxon]

Yes it looks like this exact problem with other broadcom chipsets was 'fixed' around July. The firmware initialization is timing out so you have to give it more time :).

-Will

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David O'Brien [mailto:obrien at freebsd.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 12:57 PM
> To: Will Saxon
> Cc: Adriaan de Groot; freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org; Michael J. Pelletier
> Subject: Re: AMD64 support in 5.x versions
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:43:54PM -0500, Will Saxon wrote:
> > I downloaded the 5.2-RC2 AMD64 miniinst ISO to try on a MSI K8T800
> > based dual opteron system today. I found that the system 
> panicked when
> > I used ACPI, and without ACPI the onboard broadcom ethernet is not
> > initialized correctly (something about return type/code of 6 I
> > believe). This may or may not be AMD64 related.
> 
> I've seen this on quad Opteron servers in my lab, but I haven't had a
> chance to keep one down (ie, not running Linux) for long 
> enough to debug
> it.  The bge(4) maintainer suggested finding the delay 
> statements in the
> driver and adding another "0" to them.
>