* Jan Stary on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 08:31:10AM +0200: > > I've done some research, and it turns out that the motherboard > > seems to a particularly buggy ACPI tables. And just as well, if I > > disable ACPI, the kernel panic vanishes. However, the machine > > doesn't get turned off as well, so it's not really a victory. > > All this was done using 4.6 release, as this was a few months > > ago.
> Have you also tried with current? The download went surprisingly fast (and the install even moreso; big thanks at this point for the folks who did the installer, it seems rare that one can install an operating system in five minutes). Running the April 28 snapshot which I just grabbed from FTP this instant doesn't change a thing---as expected, I get the same "AML PARSE ERROR" kernel panic. Here's a pseudo-diff from the previous dmesg to the 4.7-current one, other than the vscsi stuff nothing changes: -----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<----- -OpenBSD 4.6 (GENERIC.MP) #89: Thu Jul 9 21:32:39 MDT 2009 +OpenBSD 4.7-current (GENERIC.MP) #560: Wed Apr 28 11:55:01 MDT 2010 -avail mem = 1027940352 (980MB) +avail mem = 1028833280 (981MB) +vscsi0 at root +scsibus1 at vscsi0: 256 targets ----->8----->8----->8----->8----->8----->8----->8----->8----- acpidump(8) gives exactly the same result (well, as expected; the ACPI tables didn't change, after all...). s//un
