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Date:      Thu, 06 Feb 2003 13:13:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        James Schmidt <james@JamesSchmidt.Com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Victor Ponomarev <vick@unet.ru>
Subject:   Re: se7500+dual xeon?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030206131339.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030206114248.C39744-100000@speedy.insekure.com>

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On 06-Feb-2003 James Schmidt wrote:
> It's been a known issue for quite some time that the SMP in 4.x is
> broken with the SE7500CW2 boards (Linux and XP appear to function
> correctly) and as far as I know a fix was never found.  I have not tried
> fooling around with FreeBSD 5.x on it however.  Last I heard it appeared
> to be related to an incorrect APIC id problem of some kind, but I am not
> technically proficient enough (at that level) to know any more than that.
> 
> I would assume that this is related to that same problem, but someone
> please correct me if I'm mistaken.

His board is a WV2, not a CW2.  The WV2's should work fine though they
might need a BIOS update.

> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Victor Ponomarev wrote:
> 
>> Hi All.
>>
>> It's seems that smp kernel configuration doesn't  work correctly on
>> Intel SE7500WV2 motherboard
>> with 2 xeon processors in 5.0-RELEASE.
>>
> 
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