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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:01:50 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        "Christopher W. Banek" <unixboy@imsa.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: MTRR support in SMP kernels?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000324160150.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003232322380.27123-100000@pollux.imsa.edu>

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On 24-Mar-00 Christopher W. Banek wrote:
>  I would compile an SMP kernel and it would boot O.K but when I tried to
>  compile anything or use the processors intensively, it would crash with an
>  error like "boot on CPU1."

A more detailed error message would be of use.

>  Does FreeBSD have some kind of support like this?  I would really like to
>  ditch linux and run FreeBSD again, so if anyone has any ideas, they would
>  be greatly appricated.

I have an Epox SMP PII system and it works fine. The BIOS sets up MTRR's
fine, have you tried a BIOS update?

The MTRR support in FreeBSD works great on my computer too :)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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