Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:04:06 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Oliver Blasnik <oliver.blasnik@de.tiscali.com>, beemern <beemern@ksu.edu>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel SE7500CW2 narrowed down... Message-ID: <3DEE51A6.90BE5C12@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.20021204131157.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > The only other reported/known problems are on older Pentium and possibly > PPro machines. Do you have any other SMP i386 arch machines that do not > work? [ ... ] > Apparently both Linux and Windows use a different algorithm for starting > up AP's on i386 in that (I think) they send broadcast IPI's instead of > IPI'ing each CPU individually. This is why they work on old ASUS Pentium 90 boxes, and FreeBSD does not. It's not related to the P4 SE7500CW2-type problems, which are incorrect APIC description and chipset programming. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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