On 7/5/07, Wraukon the Excellent <wraukon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/5/07, Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org> wrote:
> > Can you get something more explicit?  Is the panic a data access
> > exception or something more specific?  Is the "expected" message
> > more like:
> >         sk0: bad VPD resource id: expected 82 got 0
>
> I think that was it...
>
>
> > Have you tried compiling with SK_DEBUG defined?  This is not so useful
> > unless you can get the output (via serial or photograph or something).
>
> I'll see what I can do with that.  This was booting from a GENERIC kernel, btw.
>
> Thanks.  I'll get more info as I can (serial ports are being a bit persnickety).
>

Due diligence part I:  dmesg from most recent GENERIC.MP kernel:

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 (GENERIC.MP) #0: Thu Jul  5 07:11:08 PDT 2007
        builds@wb27:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4/amd64/200707050002Z-obj/home/builds
/ab/netbsd-4/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
total memory = 1022 MB
avail memory = 973 MB
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
userconf: configure system autoconfiguration:
uc> disable skc-^H ^H0
uc> disabke ^H ^H^H ^H^H ^Hle skc
[187] skc* disabled
uc> quit
Continuing...
timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, 2000.04 MHz
cpu0: features: ffdbfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features: ffdbfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MPC,NOX,MMXX,MMX>
cpu0: features: ffdbfbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,B27,HTT,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW>
cpu0: features2: 2001<SSE3>
cpu0: I-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way, D-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way
cpu0: L2 cache 512 KB 64B/line 16-way
cpu0: ITLB 32 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 32 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu0: AMD Power Management features: 3f<STC,TM,TTP,VID,FID,TS>
cpu0: AMD PowerNow! Technology 2000 MHz
cpu0: available frequencies (Mhz): 1000 1800 2000
cpu0: calibrating local timer
cpu0: calibrating local timer
cpu0: apic clock running at 199 MHz
cpu0: 8 page colors
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: starting
cpu1: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, 1999.93 MHz
cpu1: features: ffdbfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu1: features: ffdbfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MPC,NOX,MMXX,MMX>
cpu1: features: ffdbfbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,B27,HTT,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW>
cpu1: features2: 2001<SSE3>
cpu1: I-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way, D-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way
cpu1: L2 cache 512 KB 64B/line 16-way
cpu1: ITLB 32 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu1: DTLB 32 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu1: AMD Power Management features: 3f<STC,TM,TTP,VID,FID,TS>
ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 2 (I/O APIC)
ioapic0: pa 0xfec00000, version 21, 24 pins
ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0
ioapic0: remapped to apic 2
acpi0 at mainbus0: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
acpi0: using Intel ACPI CA subsystem version 20060217
acpi0: X/RSDT: OemId <ATI   ,ASUSACPI,42302e31>, AslId <AWRD,00000000>
acpi0: SCI interrupting at int 9
acpi0: fixed-feature power button present
timecounter: Timecounter "ACPI-Fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
ACPI-Fast 32-bit timer
mpacpi: could not get bus number, assuming bus 0
ACPI Object Type 'Processor' (0x0c) at acpi0 not configured
ACPI Object Type 'Processor' (0x0c) at acpi0 not configured
PNP0C0C [ACPI power button device] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0A03 [PCI/PCI-X Host Bridge] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0C02 [Plug and Play motherboard register resources] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0C0F [PCI interrupt link device] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0C0F [PCI interrupt link device] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0C0F [PCI interrupt link device] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0000 [AT Interrupt Controller] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0200 [AT DMA Controller] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0100 [AT Timer] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0B00 [AT Real-Time Clock] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0800 [AT-style speaker sound] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0C04 [Math Coprocessor] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0C02 [Plug and Play motherboard register resources] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0700 [PC standard floppy disk controller] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0501 [16550A-compatible COM port] at acpi0 not configured
ATK0110 at acpi0 not configured
PNP0C02 [Plug and Play motherboard register resources] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0C01 [System Board] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0C0B [ACPI Fan] at acpi0 not configured
ACPI Object Type 'Thermal' (0x0d) at acpi0 not configured
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: ATI Technologies product 0x7910 (rev. 0x00)
ppb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: ATI Technologies product 0x7913 (rev. 0x00)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
vga0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: NVIDIA product 0x0292 (rev. 0xa1)
vga0: WARNING: ignoring 64-bit BAR @ 0x14
vga0: WARNING: ignoring 64-bit BAR @ 0x1c
wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
ppb1 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: ATI Technologies product 0x7916 (rev. 0x00)
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
pci2: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
skc0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: ioapic0 pin 18 (irq7)
skc0: bad VPD resource id: expected 82 got 0
skc0: (null) rev. (0x2)
sk0 at skc0 port A: Ethernet address 00:1b:11:c0:7e:8f
panic: sk0: unknown device type 182

The operating system has halted.
Please press any key to reboot.

[ now going to (attempt to) rebuild kernel with SK_DEBUG defined...]