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Date:      Wed, 07 Apr 2004 11:49:06 +0200
From:      Georges-Andre Silber <silber@cri.ensmp.fr>
To:        "James R. Van Artsalen" <james@jrv.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMP problems Bi-Opteron/HDAMA
Message-ID:  <4073CE92.5070400@cri.ensmp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <4073AE41.2080103@jrv.org>
References:  <4072A646.8030405@cri.ensmp.fr> <20040406152758.GA6311%till@score.is.tsukuba.ac.jp> <4073A942.6000605@cri.ensmp.fr> <4073AE41.2080103@jrv.org>

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OK, I upgraded BIOS (1.84) and all goes well now...
Thanks a lot.

Having no Windows computer, I used a bootable CDROM of FreeDOS to 
upgrade BIOS stored on a floppy disk, it worked very well, it just 
scared me during the operation :-)

Georges.

James R. Van Artsalen wrote:
> Georges-Andre Silber wrote:
> 
>> surville# diff GENERIC SURVILLE
>> 23c23
>> < ident         GENERIC
>> ---
>> > ident         SURVILLE
>>
>> As you can see, no big changes :-)
>> I don't know what to do with my kernel to activate ACPI by default...
> 
> 
> 
> See if FreeBSD/i386 sees both processors.  In particular, see if 
> FreeBSD/i386 detects ACPI or the APIC.
> 
> See if there is a newer BIOS for that motherboard.
> 
> See if ACPI is disabled in ROM setup.
> 
> My theory is that FreeBSD/amd64 is OK and that BIOS for whatever reason 
> it not presenting ACPI correctly.




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