From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 11 14:15: 7 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 14:15:05 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from giroc.albury.net.au (giroc.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0D737B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:15:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by giroc.albury.net.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBBMEin01334; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:14:44 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:14:44 +1100 From: Nick Slager To: Matt Bedynek Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP on Compaq Proliant DL380 Message-ID: <20001212091444.A99071@albury.net.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mbedynek@pdq.net on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:04:58AM -0600 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: nicks@giroc.albury.net.au Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Matt Bedynek (mbedynek@pdq.net): > I notice that APIC does not work correctly on a proliant DL380. I have SMP > working but I notice that dmesg reports this: > > APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery > APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin > 2 > APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0 > > also MPTABLE reports no useful info. Since it works, this just gots me > curious. Is there a way to fix it? This seems to be a problem with the way Compaq has implemented SMP on these machines. A fix (hack) to work around the problem has been committed to -CURRENT, but it's not in -STABLE yet. The Message-Id of the commit message is <200012060347.eB63lEP66396@freefall.freebsd.org>; search the archives. Regards, Nick -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message