Re: AMD Bulldozer and NetBSD boot pauses

[Ian Clark <mrrooster%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 15 November 2011 12:26, Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:10:01PM +0000, Ian Clark wrote:
>> However it doesn't seem to boot cleanly. I've found booting hangs
>> after the ACPI CPU detection bit (it's listed all 6 cores, and then it
>> freezes)
>
> I don't see anything like this in the dmesg you linked. But can you disable
> this device driver from userconf(4) so we can rule it in or out.
>

Just to clarify:

<----
...
acpicpu4 at cpu4: ACPI CPU
acpicpu5 at cpu5: ACPI CPU
timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0
[<---      pause usually happens here ->]
ERROR: 4030 cycle TSC drift observed
uhub0 at usb0: vendor 0x1002 OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
uhub1 at usb1: vendor 0x1002 EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
uhub2 at usb2: vendor 0x1002 OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
....
<-----

and...

<--------
dk0: 7814057951 blocks at 128, type: ffs
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs
[<---      pause usually happens here ->]
wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
<--------

I remotely rebooted it around lunchtime yesterday, and whilst it
hadn't paused at the first instance it had paused affter the 'root
file system type: ffs' message, and hadn't resumed by the time I
returned home about 5 hours later, so I think it deffo hangs rather
than takes a while to respond.

Cheers,

Ian