Subject: Re: RC1 problem Re: a very slow 2.2Ghz amd64
To: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/04/2007 21:09:30
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 05:23:05PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 05:09:50PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>> I'm seeing the same thing with my Sun X2100.  Performs nicely with NetBSD 3.x,
>> but slow like a dog with NetBSD 4.x.  I'm still having it with 4.0_RC3.
>> 
>> I've attached dmesg'es from 3.x and 4.x kernels.
>> 
>> George: did you find the "SATA emulate PATA" option in your X2100's BIOS?  I
>> don't see any such setting.  Are you using ahcisata(4) now?
>> 
>> Another problem I have with NetBSD 4.x is that the box crashes instantly when
>> running estd.
>
>
>Interestingly, both problems seem to go away if I disable ehci0 via userconf(4).
>It wasn't detected by NetBSD 3.1.

weird. maybe I didn't have usb kbd connected on one instance, or
serial console redirection on/off? there is no ps/2 on x2100,
does console (usb keyboard) work without ehci? is it just for
usb2 devices?

// George


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