About the cursed Compaq R3000

[Astrodog]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:29:06 +0100, alan barrow
<alan.barrow at psinet.telstra.co.uk> wrote:
> I've got a r3000, I can test.
> 
> Yours a.r.b.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David O'Brien
> Sent: 28 March 2005 18:59
> To: cokane at cokane.org
> Cc: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: About the cursed Compaq R3000
> 
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:12:51AM -0500, Coleman Kane wrote:
> > I think you will also need to apply the skip_timer_override patch,
> > available here:
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-January/003320.html
> > You will want to set the sysctl in loader.conf
> >
> > There's also a cradbus (PCI) patch, in addition.
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-January/003365.html
> >
> > There is another sysctl+patch that you will need to get as well. This
> > one is for the APIC:
> >
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-amd64/2005-January/003376.htm
> l
> >
> > You'll also want to set hw.apic.skip_set_extint=1 in loader.conf as
> > well to activate this one. I think both of these will enable the timer
> > to actually work in freebsd.
> 
> All of this this should be in 5.3-STABLE (ie, RELENG_5).  Are you finding
> that some of it isn't?
> 
> We really need some Compaq R3000 testers for the 5.4-BETA snapshots.
> 

Due to the DSDT patch, I'm not entire sure complete R3000 support can
become part of a release. Without that patch, if you run the laptop
with ACPI enabled, the keyboard doesn't work.

If there's a way around that, let me know, I'm up for testing.

> --
> -- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)
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