Re: AMD FX-6100 boot pauses with ACPI

[Ian Clark <mrrooster%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 1 February 2012 13:42, Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
> It would be best to get the output of 'cpuctl identify 0' from the system in
> question.

$ sudo cpuctl identify 0
cpu0: AMD Unknown K8 (Athlon) (686-class), 3314.75 MHz, id 0x600f12
cpu0: features  0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features  0x178bfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
cpu0: features  0x178bfbff<HTT>
cpu0: features2 0x1698220b<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,MONITOR,SSSE3,CX16,SSE41,SSE42>
cpu0: features2 0x1698220b<POPCNT,AES,XSAVE,AVX>
cpu0: features3 0x2fd3fbff<SYSCALL/SYSRET,NOX,MXX,FFXSR,P1GB,RDTSCP,LONG>
cpu0: features4 0x1c9bfff<LAHF,CMPLEGACY,SVM,EAPIC,ALTMOVCR0,LZCNT,SSE4A>
cpu0: features4 0x1c9bfff<MISALIGNSSE,3DNOWPREFETCH,OSVW,IBS,XOP,SKINIT,WDT>
cpu0: features4 0x1c9bfff<LWP,FMA4,NodeID,TopoExt,B23,B24>
cpu0: "AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor             "
cpu0: I-cache 64KB 64B/line 2-way, D-cache 16KB 64B/line 4-way
cpu0: L2 cache 2MB 64B/line 16-way
cpu0: ITLB 48 4KB entries fully associative, 24 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 32 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: Initial APIC ID 0
cpu0: AMD Power Management features: 0x3d9<TS,TTP,HTC,100,HWP,TSC,CPB>
cpu0: SVM Rev. 1
cpu0: SVM NASID 65536
cpu0: SVM features 0x14ff<NP,LbrVirt,SVML,NRIPS,TSCRate,VMCBCleanBits>
cpu0: SVM features 0x14ff<FlushByASID,DecodeAssist,PauseFilter,B12>
cpu0: family 0f model 01 extfamily 06 extmodel 00

>  AMD cpu families include the extended family field, and it could
> be that Bulldozer is family 16 or 17...
>

It's definatly 15, at least as far as a printf in the above code
(after the 'add the ext family' line) shows in a dmesg. :)

Cheers everyone for your help with this. This is one of the reasons I
love NetBSD. (Well, that, the good design, powerful simplicity, and
the fact single user just runs init and a shell. ;) )

Ian