Bug 91405

Don Brearley wrote:

>>Number:         91405
>>Category:       amd64
>>Synopsis:       Kernel panic caused by asr on  6.0-amd64 box
>>Confidential:   no
>>Severity:       serious
>>Priority:       high
>>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>>State:          open
>>Quarter:        
>>Keywords:       
>>Date-Required:
>>Class:          sw-bug
>>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan 06 17:20:02 GMT 2006
>>Closed-Date:
>>Last-Modified:
>>Originator:     Don Brearley
>>Release:        6.0-STABLE #4
>>Organization:
> 
> Hibbing Community College
> 
>>Environment:
> 
> FreeBSD hcc.hibbing.edu 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #4: Thu Jan 5 16:01:00 CST
> 2006    root@hcc.hibbing.edu:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/HCC amd64
> 
>>Description:
> 
> I have a Tyan Thunder S2895 (K8WE) motherboard in which I am trying to use
> an Adaptec 2400A ATA-RAID Card (AAR-2400A).  I have dual Opteron 246 CPU's
> with 2GB of RAM.  I am using a USB keyboard.
> 
> The problem is that I cannot boot the box with the Adaptec Card installed
> with ACPI-enabled.  
> 
> When I have ACPI enabled, the card is detected and then the kernel panic's
> with:  kernel trap 12: page fault in kernel mode, and then reboots.
> 
> When I have ACPI disabled, the box boots up just fine but the Adaptec card
> is not detected.  
> 
> I am enabling/disabling ACPI through hint.acpi.0.disable in /boot/loader.conf
> and/or choosing option #1 or #2 in the boot menu.
> 
> When I boot the box without the card, in ACPI mode, everything works fine. 
> 
> The problem persists in either SMP or non-SMP environments.
> 
> The problem persists with multiple Adaptec 2400A cards.  I've tried two others
> and both get errors.   I've tried using different PCI slots, and that also
> did not correct the problem. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>How-To-Repeat:
> 
> 
> Get a Tyan S2895 board and an Adaptec ATA-RAID 2400 card.  Install 6.0-release
> and try to boot with ACPI-enabled.
> 
> 
> 
>>Fix:
> 
> 
> None.  You can boot the machine by disabling ACPI, but you will not be able
> to use the Adaptec card, so you may as well just remove the card and use ACPI.
> 
> Please feel free to contact me for further details.
> 
>>Release-Note:
>>Audit-Trail:
>>Unformatted:
> 

The ASR driver will absolutely not work on amd64 due to not being 64bit 
clean.  Fixing the driver requires a significant amount of work.

Comment 2 Andriy Gapon 2010-12-05 09:53:47 UTC

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/91405

I wonder if this issue has been fixed or if asr(4) on amd64 is completely
abandoned now.  Maybe there is an alternative driver.

Just want to see what can be done with this PR.

-- 
Andriy Gapon

Comment 3 Jaakko Heinonen 2011-12-09 17:39:11 UTC

State Changed
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Note that submitter has been asked for feedback.

Comment 4 Jaakko Heinonen 2012-01-27 08:53:33 UTC

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Feedback timeout.