Re: AMD Bulldozer and NetBSD boot pauses

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

On 15 November 2011 13:17, Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 01:07:45PM +0000, Ian Clark wrote:
>> 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.
>> >
>> Which device driver? Sorry I'm being thick...
>
> Sorry, ignore the previous.

As it's in the buffer:

kern.timecounter.choice = TSC(q=-100, f=3314703750 Hz)
clockinterrupt(q=0, f=100 Hz) hpet0(q=2000, f=14318180 Hz)
ACPI-Safe(q=900, f=3579545 Hz) lapic(q=-100, f=200933289 Hz)
i8254(q=100, f=1193182 Hz) dummy(q=-1000000, f=1000000 Hz)
kern.timecounter.hardware = hpet0
kern.timecounter.timestepwarnings = 0
(ian:~)$

> It is acpicpu(4). You can drop to userconf(4)
> from the bootloader.
>
Rightyho.....

First thing, I've noticed my current kernel is better .56 (the
previous was .55), currently it only pauses at the 'root
filesystem:ffs' portion, it's not paused at the bit after the CPU
detection for several boots.

FYI It pauses here:

http://188.222.86.41/~ian/bsd_boot/hang.jpg

Disabling acpicpu had no effect.
Disabling hpet had no effect either. (I was fishing. ;) )
Booting with ACPI disabled (boot -2) works fine every time.

Some dmesgs in case they're any use:

http://188.222.86.41/~ian/bsd_boot/dmesg_acpicpu_disabled.txt
http://188.222.86.41/~ian/bsd_boot/dmesg_hpet_disabled.txt
http://188.222.86.41/~ian/bsd_boot/dmesg_no_acpi.txt

One last thing, I have seen a screenfull of error messages a couple of
times just before it reboots, after the disc syncing messages,
capturing these proves quite an excercise in timing. :)

http://ohmyno.co.uk/~ian/bsd_boot/error.jpg (sorry about the poor
focus, the subject is a fickle mistress and kept rebooting!! ;) )

Cheers,

Ian