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Date:      Sat, 20 Nov 1999 16:12:07 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Jason Craig <nemesys@home.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Compile new kernel with MCA support
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911201608390.7305-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <00b701bf338a$06d096a0$d3b17018@wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com>

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On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Jason Craig wrote:
> Here's what I see when I boot with the kernel I compiled a few days ago:

Humm...

I see where the problem is.

I'd like you to compile a kernel without SMP support but with MCA support.

Add:

controller      mca0

I'm working on the SMP angle.

> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 4.0-19991113-CURRENT #0: Fri Nov 19 08:00:49 GMT 1999
> 
> root@cr717730-d.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL.1119199
> 9
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Pentium/P54C (89.96-MHz 586-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x525  Stepping = 5
>   Features=0x3bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,APIC>
> real memory  = 67108864 (65536K bytes)
> avail memory = 62033920 (60580K bytes)
> panic: unknown bus type: 'MCA'
> mp_lock = 00000004; cpuid = 0; lapic.id = 00000000
> 
> Boom...  Locked up.
> 
> When I created the custom kernel config for this machine I did removed
> devices that were not present in my system (as usual), and enabled SMP.
> 
> # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed
> options        SMP                     # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> options        APIC_IO                 # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
> # Optionally these may need tweaked, (defaults shown):
> options        NCPU=2                  # number of CPUs
> #options        NBUS=4                  # number of busses
> #options        NAPIC=1                 # number of IO APICs
> #options        NINTR=24                # number of INTs
> 
> A little lower I noticed that there were no entries for MCA, should there be
> one?
> 
> controller      isa0
> controller      pnp0                    # PnP support for ISA
> controller      eisa0
> controller      pci0
> 
> Thans in advance,
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matthew N. Dodd <winter@jurai.net>
> To: Jason Craig <freebsd@b0rg.net>
> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 8:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Compile new kernel with MCA support
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Jason Craig wrote:
> > > I have a few FreeBSD machines that I am playing around with now, and
> > > have come across a nice old IBM PC Server 320 with dual P90 processors
> > > and 64MB of RAM i would also like to utilize.
> > >
> > > I am currently using 4.0-19991113-CURRENT generic kernel, and things are
> > > working great.
> > >
> > > However, I tried to compile a custom kernel to weed out any unwanted
> > > devices, and to enable SMP and have have run into a problem.  After
> > > compiling the kernel using the standard procedure, I rebooted it, and
> > > it panic'd after doing the kernel config.
> > >
> > > I tried removing most of the entries from /boot/kernel.conf, only to
> > > find it still panics saying something about the MCA bus.
> >
> > Using the serial console, capture the boot messages and attach them to the
> > reply to this message.
> >
> > --
> > | Matthew N. Dodd  | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD  |
> > | winter@jurai.net |       2 x '84 Volvo 245DL        | ix86,sparc,pmax |
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> >
> >
> >
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| http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent  | ISO8802.5 4ever |



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