From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Dec 5 1:22:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D5A37B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:22:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx0.estimese.net (finom.estimese.net [195.168.3.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 618DC43E9C for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:22:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zero@estimese.net) Received: (qmail 7191 invoked by uid 69); 5 Dec 2002 09:21:58 -0000 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:21:58 +0100 From: Robert Bopko To: Terry Lambert Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel SE7500CW2 narrowed down... Message-ID: <20021205092158.GB7065@finom.estimese.net> References: <3DEEABFD.A40A735E@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DEEABFD.A40A735E@mindspring.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org just a note. the intel E7500 chipset we are using here is in other dual xeon motherboards too e.g.(tyan,msi,supermicro) and these don't have problems with freebsd-smp. On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:29:33PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > I think the serverworks chipset can only run in 2 of the 4 modes, > at least as programmed by the BIOS, and goes off in the weeds, > otherwise (the first thing an AP does is grab giant, which means > it tries to grab the interrupts, as a side effect). It may be > that the chipset is plain busted. Note that one of the OS's that > works doesn't run in APIC I/O mode at all, and the other OS that > works runs in virtual wire mode. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message