Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 13:03:30 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PNPBIOS + Dell PowerEdge = panic() Message-ID: <v04220803b4a8b4ec6e0d@[195.238.20.101]> In-Reply-To: <20000116125815.A88640@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <20000116002113.B75768@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000116125815.A88640@keltia.freenix.fr>
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At 12:58 PM +0100 2000/1/16, Ollivier Robert wrote: > Speaking of PowerEdge, do we support them in SMP under -STABLE ? A friend of > mine has tried to run 3.4-R in SMP mode on one of them and it doesn't like it > apparently. Sorry if I don't have more info as he's now on vacation... > > It doesn't like the 2nd APIC in the system AFAIK. Any more idea ? I've got a PowerEdge 1300 running two PIII CPUs and 3.2 (RELEASE? STABLE? I'm not sure), and it seems to be running just fine. I've heard from others on either the -current or -stable lists that they're doing just fine with other PowerEdge hardware configs, and I believe even later versions of the OS. In fact, you might know the machine that I'm using in this role -- didn't we recently add you as a peer? ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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