Hi. I've now tested GENERIC and GENERIC.MP on amd64 with bigmem enabled.
src/sys was updated yesterday from CVS. With bigmem=0 both GENERIC [1] and GENERIC.MP [4] works fine (I am using GENERIC.MP on a daily basis). With bigmem=1 and the BIOS "Memory Remap Feature" _disabled_, both GENERIC and GENERIC.MP seems to work. It is only showing 3GB, however. With bigmem=1 and the BIOS "Memory Remap Feature" _enabled_, both GENERIC [2] and GENERIC.MP [5] fails to boot (sorry for the crappy quality; the only camera available to me was that on my mobile phone): lm1 at wbsio0 port 0x290/8: W83627DHG uhci4: host controller process error uhci4: host controller halted ehci0: unrecoverable error, controller halted ehci0: blocking intrs 0x10 uhci0: host controller process error uhci0: host controller halted uhci3: host controller process error uhci3: host controller halted ehci1: unrecoverable error, controller halted ehci1: blocking intrs 0x10 uhci2: host controller process error uhci2: host controller halted uhci1: host controller process error uhci1: host controller halted mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support uhci_freex: xfer=0xfffffe80022f4400 not busy, 0x4f4e5155 uhci_freex: xfer=0xfffffe80022f5400 not busy, 0x4f4e5155 uhci_freex: xfer=0xfffffe80022f5e00 not busy, 0x4f4e5155 uhci_freex: xfer=0xfffffe80022f6800 not busy, 0x4f4e5155 uhci_freex: xfer=0xfffffe80022f7c00 not busy, 0x4f4e5155 (GENERIC.MP shows this as the last 5 lines): uhci_freex: xfer=0xfffffe8002301400 not busy, 0x4f4e5155 uhci_freex: xfer=0xfffffe8002302400 not busy, 0x4f4e5155 uhci_freex: xfer=0xfffffe8002302e00 not busy, 0x4f4e5155 uhci_freex: xfer=0xfffffe8002303800 not busy, 0x4f4e5155 uhci_freex: xfer=0xfffffe8002304c00 not busy, 0x4f4e5155 Next I tried to disable uhci (UKC> disable uhci) and was able to boot and save the dmesg for both GENERIC [3] and GENERIC.MP [6]. Here's what appears at the end of the dmesgs: softraid0 at root wd0c: DMA error reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 4 wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 wd0c: DMA error reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 3 wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 3 wd0c: DMA error reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 2 wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 wd0c: DMA error reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying wd0: soft error (corrected) wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 1 wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 1 wd0c: DMA error reading fsbn 274277746 (wd0 bn 274277746; cn 17073 tn 0 sn 1), retrying wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 0 wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 0 wd0c: DMA error reading fsbn 274277746 (wd0 bn 274277746; cn 17073 tn 0 sn 1), retrying wd0: transfer error, downgrading to DMA mode 2 wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 wd0c: DMA error reading fsbn 274277746 (wd0 bn 274277746; cn 17073 tn 0 sn 1), retrying wd0: transfer error, downgrading to PIO mode 4 wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4 wd0c: DMA error reading fsbn 274277746 (wd0 bn 274277746; cn 17073 tn 0 sn 1), retrying wd0: soft error (corrected) root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b re0: watchdog timeout re0: watchdog timeout re0: watchdog timeout Below are the URLs to the various dmesgs and pictures. Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help. Cheers, Thomas [1] GENERIC, bigmem=0 http://tp76.info/bigmem/dmesg-generic [2] GENERIC, bigmem=1 http://tp76.info/bigmem/dmesg-generic-bigmem.jpg [3] GENERIC, bigmem=1, UKC> disable uhci http://tp76.info/bigmem/dmesg-generic-bigmem-nouhci [4] GENERIC.MP, bigmem=0 http://tp76.info/bigmem/dmesg-generic.mp [5] GENERIC.MP, bigmem=1 http://tp76.info/bigmem/dmesg-generic.mp-bigmem.jpg [6] GENERIC.MP, bigmem=1, UKC> disable uhci http://tp76.info/bigmem/dmesg-generic.mp-bigmem-nouhci