Does FreeBSD 10.3 support Intel Pentium M processor?

Hi!

Does FreeBSD 10.3 support Intel Pentium M processor?

I was waiting new release of FreeBSD 10.3, because I had serious problems with core.
Please, see my previous message. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/60614/

When I installed new release of FreeBSD 10.3 I've got the same problems.
dmesg output is
Code:
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FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #0 r320090: Mon Jun 19 15:20:25 UTC 2017
    root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
FreeBSD clang version 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032) 20140512
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.20GHz (1191.04-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin="GenuineIntel"  Id=0x6d8  Family=0x6  Model=0xd  Stepping=8
  Features=0xafe9f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE>
  Features2=0x180<EST,TM2>
real memory  = 536870912 (512 MB)
avail memory = 489017344 (466 MB)
random: <Software, Yarrow> initialized
kbd1 at kbdmux0
acpi0: <SONY> on motherboard
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
attimer0: <AT timer> port 0x40-0x43,0x50-0x53 irq 0 on acpi0
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
Event timer "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x77 irq 8 on acpi0
Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1c> port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0x1800-0x1807 mem 0xe8000000-0xefffffff,0xe0000000-0xe007ffff irq 9 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: <Intel 82855GME (855GME GMCH) SVGA controller> on vgapci0
agp0: aperture size is 128M, detected 8060k stolen memory
vgapci0: Boot video device
vgapci1: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff,0xe0080000-0xe00fffff at device 2.1 on pci0
uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0x1820-0x183f irq 9 at device 29.0 on pci0
usbus0 on uhci0
uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0x1840-0x185f irq 9 at device 29.1 on pci0
usbus1 on uhci1
uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0x1860-0x187f at device 29.2 on pci0
usbus2 on uhci2
ehci0: <Intel 82801DB/L/M (ICH4) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xe0100000-0xe01003ff at device 29.7 on pci0
usbus3: EHCI version 1.0
usbus3 on ehci0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
cbb0: <TI6420 PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 9 at device 4.0 on pci2
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
pci2: <serial bus, FireWire> at device 4.2 (no driver attached)
pci2: <mass storage> at device 4.3 (no driver attached)
fxp0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) Pro/100 VE Ethernet> port 0x3000-0x303f mem 0xe0205000-0xe0205fff irq 9 at device 8.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
inphy0: <i82562ET 10/100 media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto, auto-flow
fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:01:4a:25:1d:a8
iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xe0206000-0xe0206fff irq 9 at device 11.0 on pci2
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x1810-0x181f at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel> at channel 0 on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel> at channel 1 on atapci0
pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> port 0x1c00-0x1cff,0x18c0-0x18ff mem 0xe0100c00-0xe0100dff,0xe0100800-0xe01008ff irq 9 at device 31.5 on pci0
pcm0: <Analog Devices AD1981B AC97 Codec>
pci0: <simple comms, generic modem> at device 31.6 (no driver attached)
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model GlidePoint, device ID 0
battery0: <ACPI Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcffff,0xd8000-0xdbfff,0xdc000-0xdffff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
ppc0: parallel port not found.
est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
random: unblocking device.
usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
usbus1: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
usbus2: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
usbus3: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
ugen0.1: <Intel UHCI root HUB> at usbus0
uhub0: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
ugen3.1: <Intel EHCI root HUB> at usbus3
uhub1: <Intel EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus3
ugen2.1: <Intel UHCI root HUB> at usbus2
uhub2: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus2
ugen1.1: <Intel UHCI root HUB> at usbus1
uhub3: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus1
tsc_levels_changed: no max freq found
ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
ada0: <TOSHIBA MK6006GAH BZ002A> ATA-6 device
ada0: Serial Number 35CE7083S
ada0: 100.000MB/s transfers (UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
ada0: 57231MB (117210240 512 byte sectors)
ada0: Previously was known as ad0
cd0 at ata1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <MATSHITA UJ-822Da 1.51> Removable CD-ROM SCSI device
cd0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 65534bytes)
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
Root mount waiting for: usbus3 usbus2 usbus1 usbus0
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
Root mount waiting for: usbus3
Root mount waiting for: usbus3
uhub1: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ada0s1a [rw]...
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
fxp0: link state changed to DOWN
fxp0: link state changed to UP
cpufreq: need to increase CF_MAX_LEVELS
cpufreq: need to increase CF_MAX_LEVELS
cpufreq: need to increase CF_MAX_LEVELS
cpufreq: need to increase CF_MAX_LEVELS
cpufreq: need to increase CF_MAX_LEVELS
cpufreq: need to increase CF_MAX_LEVELS

Thank you.

p.s. Sorry for my English, I study it.
 
I can't help you directly, but I see in your older post you found where the error was being thrown in kern_cpu.c.
You also say that 9.3 boots fine. Did you try and compare kern_cpu.c from 9.3 with the 10.3 version? Maybe that could give you a hint.
 
Hi !
Thank you Wozzeck.Live.
But it's don't help me.

System is working unstable. And I've often got system crash.

And I'm trying to solve problem with core.
 
Does FreeBSD 10.3 support Intel Pentium M processor?
It does.

Almost all i386™-compatible processors with a floating point unit are supported. All Intel® processors beginning with the 80486 are supported, including the 80486, Pentium®, Pentium® Pro, Pentium® II, Pentium® III, Pentium® 4, and variants thereof, such as the Xeon™ and Celeron® processors. All i386™-compatible AMD processors are also supported, including the Am486®, Am5x86®, K5, AMD-K6® (and variants), AMD Athlon™ (including Athlon-MP, Athlon-XP, Athlon-4, and Athlon Thunderbird), and AMD Duron™ processors. The AMD Élan SC520 embedded processor is supported. The Transmeta Crusoe is recognized and supported, as are i386™-compatible processors from Cyrix and NexGen.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/hardware.html

Issues like this are rarely related to the CPU, they're usually caused by a bad or broken ACPI implementation.
 
Hi !
I've attentively read all information on site, I've read books about FreeBSD and Intel Datasheet about Pentium M.

But when I switch off ACPI, then system don't boot.
And I've got a message with fatal trap 9 and CPUID=0.

I think the problem is frequency control of Pentium M CPU.

Thanks.
 
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Please, have a look on this values
Code:
dev.est.0.freq_settings: 1200/-1 1100/-1 1000/-1 900/-1 800/-1 600/-1 1200/-1 1100/-1 1000/-1 900/-1 800/-1 600/-1
1200/-1 1100/-1 1000/-1 900/-1 800/-1 600/-1 1200/-1 1100/-1 1000/-1 900/-1 800/-1 600/-1
1200/-1 1100/-1 1000/-1 900/-1 800/-1 600/-1 1100/-1 1000/-1 900/-1 800/-1 600/-1
1100/-1 1000/-1 900/-1 800/-1 600/-1 1100/-1 1000/-1 900/-1 800/-1 600/-1
1100/-1 1000/-1 900/-1 800/-1 600/-1 1100/-1 1000/-1 900/-1 800/-1 600/-1
1100/-1 1000/-1 900/-1 800/-1 600/-1 1100/-1 1000/-1 900/-1 800/-1 600/-1

Is this right?

And when system is booting I get next messages
Code:
cpufreq: need to increase CF_MAX_LEVELS
cpufreq: need to increase CF_MAX_LEVELS
cpufreq: need to increase CF_MAX_LEVELS
cpufreq: need to increase CF_MAX_LEVELS
cpufreq: need to increase CF_MAX_LEVELS
cpufreq: need to increase CF_MAX_LEVELS

Is this OK?
 
Hi Wozzeck.Live!

I've checked kern.timecounter:
Code:
kern.timecounter.tsc_shift: 1
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc_adjust: 0
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0
kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 0
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime: 1
kern.timecounter.tick: 1
kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-1000) ACPI-fast(900) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000)
kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-fast
kern.timecounter.alloweddeviation: 5
kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.quality: -1000
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.frequency: 1191038219
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.counter: 1240980873
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.quality: 900
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.frequency: 3579545
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.counter: 16128138
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.mask: 16777215
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 25342
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535

What Do You think about kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.*?

I can't launch powerd, because it's not run.
I've got next message:
Code:
powerd: error reading supported CPU frequencies: Argument list too long

But when I was using FreeBSD 9.2, kern.timecounter was:
Code:
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime: 1
kern.timecounter.tick: 1
kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) ACPI-fast(900) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000)
kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-fast
kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 51127
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.mask: 16777215
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.counter: 5230116
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.frequency: 3579545
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.quality: 900
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.counter: 4187231920
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.frequency: 1191039473
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.quality: 800
kern.timecounter.tsc_shift: 1
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc_adjust: 0
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0
kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 0
And system was working GOOD!
 
Hi !
I was trying to boot
FreeBSD 10.3 r.321074 and
FreeBSD 11.1 r.321309 from CD.
I've got the same problems.

Thanks.
 
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Hello!
I've analysed source code and come to conclusion, that original driver
of Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology doesn't support Intel Pentium M processor.

To solve my problem I've added next lines to the /boot/device.hints
Code:
hint.acpi_perf.0.disabled="1"
hint.est.0.disabled="1"

Also I've found est driver for the Intel Pentium M processor.
Have a look at the www.daemonology.net/freebsd-est/.

Now I'm trying to fix source file for my Sony VGN-T2XRP laptop.

Thanks to All.
And very big Thanks to Colin Percival!

p.s. Sorry for my English. I study it.
 
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