problems booting recompiled 5.4-kernel (Was: amd64 does not see all 4 GB RAM on tyan GT24)

[Sean McNeil]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 11:11 -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:12 pm, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 16:04 -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 02:47 pm, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > > > # jhb at freebsd.org / 2005-11-09 10:22:07 -0500:
> > > > > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:22 am, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> > > > > > I tried FreeBSD 6.0 a few days ago and I seem to recall that the
> > > > > > above mentioned line is not needed in FreeBSD 6.0, but my (own)
> > > > > > memory is probably corrupt :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > That's correct.
> > > >
> > > >     EAMBIGUOUS.
> > > >
> > > >     Which part is correct? "mentioned line is not needed in FreeBSD
> > > > 6.0" or "my (own) memory is probably corrupt"?
> > >
> > > You don't need atpic on 6.0.
> >
> > Not true.  My Athlon 2x Gigabyte K8 Triton (GA-K8NSC-939) requires atpic
> > or it will not boot.  This is an nVidia nForce3-Pro250 board.
> 
> You need to post a problem report about it then since we are probably going to 
> remove atpic in 7.0.  When atpic was taken out of GENERIC in HEAD recently no 
> one said it broke for them.  What problems do you see with atpic taken out on 
> 6.0?

Again, not true.  When it was asked in email subject

	Re: [PATCH] remove 'device atpic'

I responded at that time with:

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 10:40 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 October 2005 05:28 pm, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > Just recently fried my MSI MB and got a new one with an Athlon 64x2.
> > The following setup still requires the 'device atpic' or it will
fault
> > with an unknown/reserved trap of 30:
> >
> >     GigaByte K8 Triton Series GA-K8NSC-939 BIOS rev. F5
> >     AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 3800+
> >
> > It works perfectly fine as a single core without the atpic device
and as
> > a dual-cpu with the atpic device.  This board has the nForce3 250Gb
> > chipset.
> 
> What version(s) of FreeBSD does it fail on?

This was/is 6-current RC1.

Cheers,
Sean