Subject: Re: Why Pstate could make NetBSD buggy ?
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: =?us-ascii?Q?Jerome_Loyet?= <jerome@loyet.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/03/2006 13:42:43
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> > Several persons have installed NetBSD 3.0 on those
> dedicated servers. 
> > A  part
> > has a stable installation, the other part has a buggy   
> > installation. After
> > investigation, the ONLY difference is the version  of the BIOS. and 
> > the difference is:
> > The Pstate has been disabled on buggy BIOS and vcore as
> been augmented
> > by 0.1v
> >
> > The 2 BIOS are working fine on *Linux and FreeBSD but the newest is 
> > not on NetBSD and OpenBSD
> >
> > I've tested OpenBSD and the problem is exactly the same. OpenBSD is 
> > also buggy with this BIOS revision.
> 
> Are you booting a NetBSD kernel with ACPI support?

No, I'm using GENERIC kernel. Why ?

Thx
Jerome

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