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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:36:10 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org, Tom Duffey <tduffey@wi.rr.com>
Subject:   Re: More IBM Netfinity 3500 SMP problem
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010322173610.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <000a01c0b338$4bc3d680$aa240018@cx443070b>

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On 23-Mar-01 Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Duffey" <tduffey@wi.rr.com>
> To: <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 5:03 PM
> Subject: More IBM Netfinity 3500 SMP problem
> 
> 
>> The output of mptable shows that this system has three busses, but FreeBSD
>> defaults to 4.  So, I attempted to recompile a kernel using more specific
>> SMP options, namely:
>>
>> options SMP
>> options APIC_IOB
>> options NBUS=3
>>
>> But 'config' complains:
>>
>> smp:61: unknown option "NBUS".
>>
>> Are the optional SMP paramaters no longer available?  Does it
>> matter?  Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help make
>> FreeBSD's SMP support work with this hardware.
> 
> You shouldn't need those options.  I use the 3500 with Dual PIII 500s, and
> it works fine, just options SMP

Err, and APIC_IO I hope.  The kernel now examines the MP table and dynamically
figures out how many busses, cpus, etc. to deal with on the fly, so it should
work fine without needing NBUS tweaked.

-- 

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