On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 09:46:32AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> "Kevin O'Connor" writes:
> > It's possible that the OS has an error in handling the SMBIOS when it
> > is in high-memory (located above 1meg). (For example, older versions
> > of Linux crash when the mptable is in high memory.)
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>
"Kevin O'Connor" writes:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 05:45:02PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> It's been a while with little work and little progress on my side... But
>> I looked at this again today, and found that it may be related to the
>> SMBIOS table being allocated with malloc_high(). Does that
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 05:45:02PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> It's been a while with little work and little progress on my side... But
> I looked at this again today, and found that it may be related to the
> SMBIOS table being allocated with malloc_high(). Does that make sense?
>
> Anyway, the p
Bjørn Mork writes:
> "Kevin O'Connor" writes:
>
>> It looks like memory layout changes in the f-segment is tickling the
>> underlying bug. I don't think SMBIOS, the above commit, or the other
>> commit identified earlier are the root cause of the problem. Instead,
>> I'd guess these commits jus
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 02:39:04PM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 04:18:38PM -0700, Brandon Bennett wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Kevin O'Connor
> > > wrote:
> > >> Should a kernel fail during boot, I'd suspect it doesn't like one of
> > >> the apm/pcibios
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 04:18:38PM -0700, Brandon Bennett wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> >> Should a kernel fail during boot, I'd suspect it doesn't like one of
> >> the apm/pcibios callbacks, or it doesn't like one of the
> >> smbios/mptable/acpi tables. You
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>> Should a kernel fail during boot, I'd suspect it doesn't like one of
>> the apm/pcibios callbacks, or it doesn't like one of the
>> smbios/mptable/acpi tables. You could try compiling the SeaBIOS code
>> (see http://seabios.org/Download
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 05:23:59PM -0700, Brandon Bennett wrote:
>> When booting a Juniper JunOS kernel (FreeBSD based) I am getting a
>> panic: unkown/reserved trap error immediately after the kernel loads.
>> If i use an older pc-bios with
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 05:23:59PM -0700, Brandon Bennett wrote:
> When booting a Juniper JunOS kernel (FreeBSD based) I am getting a
> panic: unkown/reserved trap error immediately after the kernel loads.
> If i use an older pc-bios with the '-bios' option everything works so
> it seems to be an i
