From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Mar 22 20:27:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from ambrisko.com (adsl-216-103-208-74.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.103.208.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52DF437B71A for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:27:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by ambrisko.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f2N4RBu19168; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:27:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200103230427.f2N4RBu19168@ambrisko.com> Subject: Re: More IBM Netfinity 3500 SMP problem In-Reply-To: "from Tom Duffey at Mar 22, 2001 09:55:34 pm" To: Tom Duffey Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:27:11 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tom Duffey writes: | Thanks for clearing up the confusion regarding optional SMP kernel | paramaters. | | Unfortunately, my 3500 with dual PIII 733's still fails to boot if I | compile the kernel with "options SMP" and "options APIC_IO." Is there | anything out of the ordinary that must be done to make SMP work with the | Netfinity 3500 M20's? FYI the dual CPU IBM IntelliStations M Pro 6868 needed an upgraded BIOS to work with SMP. It was a BIOS error noted in the release notes for the BIOS stating problems with SMP. The IntellisStation use the Intel 840 chipset. Prior 6889 used the BX chipset and we just fine. Since IBM rebrands the same hardware under different names you could be using the same board and then need the BIOS update. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message