Re: 6-CORE Dunnington

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 23:36 +0800, Mars G Miro wrote:
Hiya

Has anyone successfully tried installing and running FreeBSD on
Intel's newest 6-CORE Dunnington?

I was able to install 200809-CURRENT on it but after recompiling
the kernel (taking out WITNESS, INVARIANTS KGDB et al) I found out
that I could not boot it anymore. What's weird is that I could not
boot the same 200809-CURRENT CD that I used the first time. Just hangs
on
....
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci0: [ITHREAD]
....

I've also tried installing via PXE and it always hangs on the above
spot, even using a -CURRENT from Sept 26 and PXE-booting it. No go :-(

Firstly, does it seem to be detecting all six CPUs correctly? Are you
able to reboot with the old kernel and put a verbose dmesg and the
output of "acpidump -dt" up on the web somewhere? It would also be
interesting to know if anything else is printed after the above when it
hangs on a verbose boot.



I can't be sure that it detects the 6 cores. I did get a dmesg prior
to rebuilding the world on it but I didnt get it off the box as I was
working on rebuilding the world. I tried rebooting w/ the old kernel
as well as, like I said, the 200809-CURRENT CD but it just hangs.

btw, this is a 4-CPU 6-core (4 Physical CPUs, 6 Cores each)


There was a report back in July about FreeBSD not discovering all the
CPUs on the board, but there was no mention of hanging on boot.


Yes. I read that thread. The OP said he had a chance to test the
6-core for a few hours. This box is in my hands for quite an
indefinite amount of time ;-)

Thanks.

Gavin




--
cheers
mars
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