That's awesome news. I have the same setup (4cpu/16GB). Thanks very much for the response (and ddp also)... I will happily test anything that comes out.
On 5/19/05, Jason George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/19/05, Need Coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been searching but can't find anything concrete... amd64.html > > and the FAQ's amd64 section do not mention any problems, so I'm > > asking here. (I found little bits here and there about this problem > > affecting a lot of freenixes but nothing tangible. Apologies if I've > > missed something major...) > > > > Trying to boot a sun v40z with >4GB RAM fails with OpenBSD/amd64 > > 3.6 and 3.7-current from yesterday. i386 3.7-current works. > > > > (begin snippet from amd64 3.7-current from yesterday) > > > > >> OpenBSD/amd64 PXEBOOT 1.06 > > booting tftp:bsd.rd: 1468848+300494+2137464+0+469256 > [80+156528+90879]=0x8692c > 8 > > entry point at 0x1001e0 [7205c766, 34000004, 24448612, 68a0a304] > > WARNING: CAN'T ALLOCATE EXTENDED MEMORY FROM IOMEM EXTENT MAP! > > skipping 3824615424 bytes of memory above 4GB > > panic: init_x86_64: can't find end of memory > > > > The operating system has halted. > > Please press any key to reboot. > > > > (end snippet) > > > > Removing all but 4GB of memory allows the system to boot without > > issue. > > > > So, the inevitable question: is there any workaround or fix in > > development that I may test? I would happily do so. Should I > > sendbug(1) this? My guess is that this is already well known to > > everyone except me... > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > This issue is known to the pertinent developers - I worked with them a few > few weeks ago on the issue. My 4-way/16GB v40z was barking the same way. > > We were able to exclude the extra memory using "machine memory" at the > boot prompt, but it became evident that more work with memory mapping on > large-memory devices is required. The network and SCSI/RAID drivers could > not be mapped even after we were able to boot bsd.rd. > > We'll discuss the issue (and others) in the next 9 or 10 days over a lot > of beer at the hackathon. > > --Jason
