Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:04:12 -0600 From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com> To: "Peter Marrinon" <peterm@telstra.net> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Support for Compaq/HP DL380 G3 Message-ID: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10440E3C5@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>
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You can also set the OS for Windows 2000. That makes the "Auto" setting for MPS Table Mode to be Full Table (not Mapped), which may be a little more efficient w.r.t. interrupt distribution. > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Saab [mailto:ps@freebsd.org]=20 > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:29 PM > To: Peter Marrinon > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Support for Compaq/HP DL380 G3 >=20 > Just set the operating system to Linux and you dont have to=20 > worry about changing the other settings. >=20 > Be aware, the ethernet device may not always come up with a=20 > miibus. I still need to MFC the following patch to make it=20 > work reliably. >=20 http://people.freebsd.org/~ps/bge.diff Peter Marrinon (peterm@telstra.net) wrote: > I have successfully got SMP with HTT working on a Compaq/HP DL380 G3=20 > with FreeBSD 4-STABLE (as at 5/2/2003). >=20 > Within BIOS, it is necessary to change the "MPS Table Mode" to "Full=20 > Table APIC" or "Full Table Mapped". Note, unlike "Auto", these two=20 > options apparently ignore the Operating System option (which I have=20 > set to "Other OS"). >=20 > One thing I have noticed is that it does not seem to matter whether=20 > "Processing Hyper-Threading" is set to enabled or disabled - in either > case HTT is a feature that FreeBSD sees. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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