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Date:      Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:30:02 -0500 (CDT)
From:      James Schmidt <james@JamesSchmidt.Com>
To:        Stephen Karrington <sk@dreamtime.net>
Cc:        "'Pierre Beyssac'" <beyssac@enst.fr>, "'Terry Lambert'" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "'John Baldwin'" <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, <smp@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'beemern'" <beemern@ksu.edu>
Subject:   RE: PATCH: start_ap(), and P4 SMP hack to try
Message-ID:  <20020927182821.O54936-100000@speedy.insekure.com>
In-Reply-To: <02b901c264b1$d9f61f90$b69f4344@useriwkuwos7hm>

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If anyone develops a working patch for this problem, I would like to know
where and how to obtain it as well.  Many thanks,

James Schmidt

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Stephen Karrington wrote:

> Hello,
> Add me to the list. I am also having this problem too.
>
> My specs are:
>
> Intel Motherboard SE7500CW2SCSI.
> Xeon Processor BX80532KC2200D. I have two of them.
> 512 meg modules - 266X72RC25/512I. I have 4 of them.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Stephen Karrington
> Dreamtime.net Inc.
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>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierre Beyssac
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 7:55 AM
> > To: Terry Lambert
> > Cc: John Baldwin; smp@FreeBSD.ORG; beemern
> > Subject: Re: PATCH: start_ap(), and P4 SMP hack to try
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:17:22AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > What it does is correct the start_ap routine to take a physical
> > > instead of a logical CPU as an argument.
> >
> > FWIW, I've tested a similar patch of mine a few days ago,
> > because I'm having the exact same problem as everyone else in
> > this thread on a bi-Xeon Intel motherboard.
> >
> > My patch just changes the start_ap routine to use a physical
> > ID, and start_ap is called in a loop with CPU varying from 8
> > back to 1 until we get one processor started. It doesn't work.
> >
> > I even added additional delays in start_ap in case this would
> > just be a timing problem, and it didn't work either.
> >
> > I'm not a SMP specialist (actually I was not subscribed to
> > -smp until I found it searching "PHY FreeBSD panic y/n"
> > through Google) so I have no idea what to try next.
> > --
> > Pierre Beyssac
> > pb@enst.fr
> >
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> >
> >
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