Re: Disabling ACPI also implicitly disables SMP support for Intel Atom chips?

[enami tsugutomo <enami%sm.sony.co.jp@localhost>]

"David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost> writes:

> So I removed my /etc/ifconfig.re0 file, rebooted with ACPI on, manually
> brought up the interface, manually added the default route, and voila,
> re(4) works fine.  So that seems to be the workaround for people who
> absolutely want both HT and re(4) on these little devils (pun intended
> when they're running a BSD).

FYI.

I'm using intel D945GCLF2 with netbooting netbsd.  The netbsd-4
GENERIC kernel boots fine but GENERIC kernel of current (and netbsd-5
iirc) doesn't boot due to the `reset never complete'.  The workaround
I'm currently using for this is adding huge delay in front of
re_reset() (see below).

enami.

Index: rtl8169.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/dev/ic/rtl8169.c,v
retrieving revision 1.107
diff -u -r1.107 rtl8169.c
--- rtl8169.c   3 Jan 2009 03:43:22 -0000       1.107
+++ rtl8169.c   6 Mar 2009 02:50:35 -0000
@@ -377,6 +377,7 @@
 {
        int i;
 
+       DELAY(10000);
        CSR_WRITE_1(sc, RTK_COMMAND, RTK_CMD_RESET);
 
        for (i = 0; i < RTK_TIMEOUT; i++) {