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 00:49:12 +0300

 On 10.09.2012 00:44, Stefano Marinelli wrote:
 >>> 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.
 >
 > Yes, it returns HPET. And the sysstat reports more or less those numbers of interrupts. So this has been sorted out. Now my machine is running PC-BSD and looks stable (more tests needed).
 >
 > About the power consumption issue, I've just rebooted into Linux and tested with the "vesa" xorg driver. Same power consumption as Free/PCBSD. So definitely a GPU powersave issue. I just hope that xorg will support my video card soon.
 >
 > Do you think that your patch will be a part of 9.1 final release?
 
 Hope so. I will try to manage it.
 
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 Alexander Motin