Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:28:32 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is a BSP, and why does SMP panic about it? Message-ID: <19981012112832.A28262@Alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <x7iuhrgoxp.fsf@singularity.enigami.com>; from Cory Kempf on Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 10:20:50AM -0400 References: <x7iuhrgoxp.fsf@singularity.enigami.com>
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On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 10:20:50AM -0400, Cory Kempf wrote: > This may be more properly sent to the SMP list... > > I have an Intel DK440LX motherboard with 1 CPU (the second is on > order). > > I decided to try making the kernel with SMP turned on, to make sure > everything works before plugging in the second CPU. One of the SMP > web pages seemed to imply that one could run a SMP kernel on a > uniprocessor box, with some performance degredation. > > >From my config file: > #SMP: > options SMP > options APIC_IO > options NCPU=1 > options NBUS=3 > options NAPIC=1 > options NINTR=24 > > > When I attempted to boot, I got a panic: no BSP found. > > Uh, what is a BSP, and where can they be found? > > Thanks, Can't tell anything about BSP, but about the Intel Dk440LX board. I use the same board with two PII-300 and it works great. Have been doing make buildworlds in below 1 hour fine. > > +C > -- > Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? > Please read this first: <http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/chipmerchant.html>; > > Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development > ckempf@enigami.com <http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/>; > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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