Re: port-amd64/34579 (NetBSD-4.0 amd64 hangs during install (/sbin/newfs) on nForce4)

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/34579; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-amd64/34579 (NetBSD-4.0 amd64 hangs during install 
(/sbin/newfs) on nForce4)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:34:46 +0000

 On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:25:02PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/34579; it has been noted by 
 > GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: port-amd64/34579 (NetBSD-4.0 amd64 hangs during install 
 > (/sbin/newfs) on nForce4)
 > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:24:08 +0100
 > 
 >  And -current doesn't work either?
 >  Is there a bios update available for that board?
 >  
 >  This is an interrupt routing issue. Can you please append both the i386
 >  and amd64 dmesg?
 
 http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/nforce4.diff
 
 As far as I understand it ACPI on the nForce4 board lies about the interrupt
 routing. That above patch doesn't work but is a good starting point for
 debugging. It would be good if someone with an nForce4 system sat down and
 debugged the problem further.
 
 Andrew