From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 18 20:23:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ABAE1525E for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 20:23:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16941CA7; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:23:45 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith Cc: N , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2xPIIIx450 results & NFS results In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:31:18 MST." <199909190231.TAA21108@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:23:45 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990919032345.E16941CA7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > Matthew Dillon wrote:> thereabouts. Patches have been posted to several ma iling lists, I was > > wondering whether they've been committed somewhere along the line, and > > whether APM was safe for inclusion into a 4.0-CURRENT SMP kernel again. > > APM and SMP are not functional in -current; this broke with the new > BIOS call mechanism and I have not yet been able to fathom the nature > of the problem. According to Alan Cox (the Linux one), most APM BIOS implementations are fundamentally incompatable with SMP. (he said "all", not "most" actually). Using APM for anything more than "turn the box off" after shutting down all the AP's is going to be trouble, assuming he's right. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message