From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Sep 25 12:32:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-89-203.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.89.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC8737B50C; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:31:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8PJVKA13966; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:31:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200009251931.e8PJVKA13966@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "O. Hartmann" Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TYAN Thunder 2500/MP Table Error In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:15:49 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:31:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is an informational message only, and you should ignore it. > Dear Sirs. > I run successfully a TYAN Thunder 2500 mainboard with FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE, BIOS Beta > 1.03/896 for the LSI 53C896 based SCSI controler. When booting, I obtain a lot of > SMP messages from the kernel, but at one stage, I receive this error: > > 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 > > SMP works fine, but it seems that there is something wron with the MP table. > Is this a serious error message or is it simply a warning? What kind of performance penalty does > it results in? And: hopefully, is there a chance to get rid of it with a new > BIOS update in the future? > > Thanks in advance, > > Gruss O. Hartmann > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de > > Klimadatenserver des IPA, Universitaet Mainz > Netzwerk- und Systembetreuung > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message