"panic: cpu_initclocks: could not determine STICK frequency" booting V890

[Peter Jeremy]

[Moving back on-list]

On 2011-May-17 11:05:55 +1000, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at acm.org> wrote:
>I've found an unused V890 (64GB RAM, 8 dual-core 1.35GHz US-IV CPUs,
>12 146GB FC disks) and thought I'd try FreeBSD on it (especially since
>I had a copy of FreeBSD-8.2-RC2 lying around on CD).  My initial try
>failed with "panic: kmem_suballoc: bad status return of 3" but
>limiting the RAM to 4GB with hw.physmem worked around that.
>Unfortunately, it then panic's as above.
>
>Looking at the sources, the only recent change in that area of
>sparc64/sparc64/tick.c is related to Serengeti-class machines (which
>the V890 isn't).

Thanks to Marius for having a look through an OFW dump of "my" V890.
Turns out that, as with the Serengeti-class machines, the
stick-frequency property is also on the nexus device and booting
a recent 8.2 snapshot works.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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