panic: no BIOS SMAP info from loader

[Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri]

On Nov 5, 2007 10:15 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Monday 05 November 2007 11:48:07 am Bob Johnson wrote:
> > On 11/5/07, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > My web searches on this indicated that when HP first introduced these
> > > systems, they had the same problem with Linux. HP provided a patch
> > > that allows recent Linux kernels to boot. Older i386 FreeBSDs also can
> > > not boot on my HP dc7700. So it appears someone has already fixed this
> > > for i386, but no one has moved it to AMD64.
> > >
> > > I don't remember which i386 versions work or don't work, but I can
> > > start booting install disks and find out.
> >
> > Hmmm. Maybe I should retract that. I cannot find an i386 install CD
> > that won't boot on it. I've tried 7.0-BETA1, 6.2-STABLEsnap200708,
> > 6.2-RC1, 6.1-RELEASE, 6.0-BETA2, 6.0-BETA1, 5.3-RC1 (hangs probing
> > ATA1), 4.5-RELEASE, and 4.3-RELEASE. But I thought I remembered being
> > unable to boot some i386 install CDs in it.
>
> Without an SMAP, FreeBSD/i386 is only going to find about 64M of RAM on the
> box though.  Do you know what the patch was that HP provided for Linux?  I
> wasn't able to find it.  If you disable ACPI is FreeBSD/i386 able to see all
> of the RAM in the box?
>
> --
> John Baldwin

John,

This one?

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8833
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118809338631160&w=2



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-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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