Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:47:30 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 4.7 on 2 Xeons SMP? Message-ID: <XFMail.20030122104730.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <FPEBKMIFGFHCGLLKBLMMEEJPCBAA.ghelmer@palisadesys.com>
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On 22-Jan-2003 Guy Helmer wrote: > I just received a HP Proliant DL380 G3 with dual 2.8GHz Xeons to evaluate, > but when I try to bring up an SMP kernel (GENERIC + SMP and APIC options and > bge Ethernet driver) from 4.7-stable cvsupped January 3, it locks solid at > the point where it prints "APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery". I > have searched the 'net for help but I haven't found anything that seems to > help. I have tried changing the BIOS's operating system support to Linux > and SCO, but neither helped. A plain GENERIC kernel boots fine on the box. > > FWIW, a SuperMicro P4DPE-G2 with dual 2.8GHz Xeons booted the same SMP > kernel just fine. > > Any thoughts? Some of the newer HPaq boxes do not deliver interrupts for the real time clock via the I/O APIC. There currently is not a work around for this, but at least one person at HP is looking into the issue and peter@ has been working on it as well. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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