Re: GENERIC -current kernel requires modification to boot on ALIX

2008-01-16 Thread Marc Balmer
* Rolf Sommerhalder wrote: > To test, I have simpley disabled tickling by the kernel: > sysctl kern.watchdog.auto=0 > The watchdog bites within 30 seconds which is the default > kern.watchdog.period=30 > > Running the userspace tickler watchdogd, which implicitly disables > kern.watchdog.auto,

Re: GENERIC -current kernel requires modification to boot on ALIX

2008-01-16 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder
On Jan 12, 2008 9:01 PM, Jan Stary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was testing the watchdog-enabled kernel on my ALIX.1C in October for > Marc Balmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - he's the guy you want to contact. > ... > basically, the timer got correctly detected, but didn't really work > - both before an

Re: GENERIC -current kernel requires modification to boot on ALIX

2008-01-12 Thread Jan Stary
On Jan 12 17:00:52, Rolf Sommerhalder wrote: > Only commenting out the wdog_register() call, but leaving the call to > bus_space_write_2() active makes boot still stop. So the problems > appears to be with the call to bus_space_write_2(). > Who is familiar with this function and the AMD5536? On Ja

Re: GENERIC -current kernel requires modification to boot on ALIX

2008-01-12 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder
On Jan 12, 2008 5:00 PM, Rolf Sommerhalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem seems to occurs while the function glxpcib_attach() in > src/sys/arch/i386/pci/glxpcib.c attaches the watchdog timer. If I > comment out the lines Upgrading the ALIX firmware from 0.98 to the latest BIOS v0.99 sol

Re: GENERIC -current kernel requires modification to boot on ALIX

2008-01-12 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder
On Jan 12, 2008 1:11 PM, Rolf Sommerhalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not yet understand if the problem comes from the timer / watchdog > / GPIO which glxpcib activates, or if I should try to do a BIOS > upgrade of the ALIX board to the latest revision. The problem seems to occurs while the

GENERIC -current kernel requires modification to boot on ALIX

2008-01-12 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder
Hello, I found that GENERIC -current (from latest snapshot) fails to boot on ALIX (see A) below), whereas the same kernel boots fine on WRAP. For my tests, I simply swap the same 1GB CF card, from the WRAP to ALIX on which I installed OpenBSD from the latest snapshots. After disabling 'pciglxb' i