The following reply was made to PR kern/167018; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bengt Ahlgren
To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org, jens.l...@gmx.de
Cc: a...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/167018: [hwpmc] [patch] hwpstate0: set freq failed with AMD
FX(tm)-8120 Eight-Core Processor
Date: Tue, 09 Apr
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Aug 11 12:00:18 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Bengt Ahlgren
>Release:8.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
N/A (can't boot install dvd)
>D
I did some testing with wiping the first 100 sectors, but that did not
make any difference.
It does look like the IO isn't completing, suggesting an interrupt
problem. Indeed, disabling the apic (set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 at
the loader prompt) solves the tasting issue!
But strangely enough, ano
