Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 13:15:10 -0800 From: Philippe Le Berre <plb@placeware.com> To: danh@gelatinous.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stable + smp problem Message-ID: <5.0.1.4.0.20001204131259.018fa300@manston> In-Reply-To: <20001203002114.34959.qmail@cube.gelatinous.com>
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Have a look in the 4.2 Release Notes, << The NCPU, NAPIC, NBUS, and NINTR kernel configuration options, for configuring SMP kernels, have been removed. NCPU is now set to a maximum of 16, and the other, aforementioned options are now dynamic. >> That's may be reason. -philippe At 03/12/2000 00:21 +0000, danh@gelatinous.com wrote: >Up until recently my HP Vectra with 2 pentium pro 180 processors >ran freebsd 4.1-stable succesfully with a SMP kernel with no >weird tweaking involved. I commented in the 2 SMP lines in the >generic kernel config, compiled, rebooted, and it worked fine. > >A few days ago I cvsuped to freebsd 4.2-stable and SMP refuses to work > >after attempting to boot with a 4.2 stable SMP kernel, the machine >locks up very early in the boot process here: > > > > Changing APIC ID for IO APIC # from 16 to 2 in MP table > Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #0 > IOAPIC # intpn 2 -> irq 0 > > >now I am successfully running a non SMP freebsd 4.2-stable kernel, >but I kind of miss my 2nd processor. > >any ideas why this would happen? > >thanks. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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