Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 09:21:41 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, rv@groa.uct.ac.za, erich@uruk.org Subject: Re: SMP on Intel MG15 Message-ID: <300.841562501@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 Aug 1996 15:43:40 MDT." <199608312143.PAA28776@clem.systemsix.com>
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In message <199608312143.PAA28776@clem.systemsix.com>, Steve Passe writes: >Hi, > >Russel and I are trying to get FreeBSD SMP working on the Intel XXPRESS >board. We are past hte 2nd CPU ID = 2 problem. It appears that >the apic_startup routine never (correctly) launches the 2nd CPU. looking >at the MP spec and Intel pent. manuals it appears that the INIT/Reset >IPI expects that a "warm start vector" will exist for starting the >2nd CPU, but the current code seems to ignore this. See MP spec B.4.1 >for details. the startup code is just the minimum to get neptune based machines flying. much work is needed there. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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