panic: no BIOS SMAP info from loader

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 01 November 2007 07:32:28 pm Bob Johnson wrote:
> This is a known problem with amd64 on HP systems. See for instance
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=111952 and
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=111955
> 
> I hope it is fixed before 7.0 is released. It would be even better if
> it were fixed soon enough to test 7.0 amd64 on HP systems before the
> release.
> 
> In my case, on an HP dc7700, i386 works, amd64 (200708 snapshot) gets
> the missing smap panic. I haven't tried 7.0-BETA AMD64 yet, but it
> sounds like I don't need to bother.

Do you have access to one of these machines?  Would you feel up to 
dissassembling the BIOS to trace what it does for the int 15 e820 call?

-- 
John Baldwin