amd64/171355: FreeBSD 9.1rc1 (and 10-HEAD) not booting on HP Pavilion g6 2147sl

[Alexander Motin]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/171355; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org>
To: Stefano Marinelli <stefano at dragas.it>
Cc: attilio at freebsd.org, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: amd64/171355: FreeBSD 9.1rc1 (and 10-HEAD) not booting on HP
 Pavilion g6 2147sl
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:29:06 +0300

 On 10.09.2012 00:16, Stefano Marinelli wrote:
 >>>> hint.hpet.0.legacy_route=1
 >>>> hint.attimer.0.clock=0
 >>>> hint.atrtc.0.clock=0
 >
 >
 > I tried on both the patched and the unpatched kernel.
 > The unpatched kernel refuses to boot (hangs as if I didn't write anything).
 
 Hmm. Strange.
 
 > The patched one boots with this dmesg: http://www.dragas.org/~draga/dmesg2.txt
 
 Log looks good. If HPET is used as it should be according to priorities 
 I see (sysctl kern.eventtimer.timer returns HPET), then legacy_route 
 mode probably works as expected. In `systat -vm 1` you should see about 
 50-70 timer interrupts per CPU.
 
 -- 
 Alexander Motin