From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 27 13:15:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 702D116A401 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:15:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seebs@plethora.net) Received: from herd.plethora.net (herd.plethora.net [205.166.146.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F86543D46 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:15:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from seebs@plethora.net) Received: from guild.plethora.net (guild.plethora.net [205.166.146.8]) by herd.plethora.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7AF31E41 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:15:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: from guild.plethora.net (seebs@localhost) by guild.plethora.net (8.13.3/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5RDHfbB001686 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:17:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200606271317.k5RDHfbB001686@guild.plethora.net> X-Authentication-Warning: guild.plethora.net: seebs owned process doing -bs From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:55:56 BST." Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:17:41 -0500 Subject: Re: SMP system not running SMP X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Peter Seebach List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:15:38 -0000 In message , Pete French writes : >> Yeah. What's curious, to me, is that this is apparently widespread. >Well, only you and I seem to be seeing this precise problem, but it >does look like ti is the *same* problem, which is what interests me. We haven't heard from anyone using boards with this hardware in SMP. I don't know how many amd64 users are trying for SMP, but it's interesting that no one seems to be doing it successfully with Adaptec controllers (possibly qualified to "on motherboards with this chipset"). >> I think my next option is to boot with acpi, but with everything I can >> possibly disable disabled. >Yours works without the devices in ther kerenel, right ? That's the only >way I got mine to boot SMP with the boards still plugged in. Yup. But I oughta try the experiment of disabling EVERY ACPI feature that I can. I'm also gonna boot NetBSD again and see whether I spot anything interesting. What's bugging me is that, despite people having told me you can't have SMP without ACPI, I thought I did the NetBSD test back when I had ACPI disabled in the BIOS. I'm probably just remembering wrong, but now I have to go look. -s