From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 22 12:38:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from arjun.niksun.com (gwnew.niksun.com [206.20.52.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9091537BADE for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 12:38:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joy@niksun.com) Received: from falcon.niksun.com (falcon.niksun.com [10.0.0.167]) by arjun.niksun.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA44697; Mon, 22 May 2000 15:37:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from joy@falcon.niksun.com) Message-ID: <39298CA3.1C6F68F2@falcon.niksun.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:38:11 -0400 From: Joy Ganguly X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: SMP and APIC??? References: <392982C1.674000DD@falcon.niksun.com> <58375.959022929@verdi.nethelp.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > i have compiled freeBSD 3.4 SMP. but when i try to boot it the kernel > > shows "Testing APIC 8254" and then it hangs. earlier i had run mptable > > and it showed:I/O APICs: > > ---------------------- > > {Lots of stuff}.... > > > > APIC ID Version State Address > > 2 0x20 usable 0xfec00000 > > 3 0x20 usable 0xfd8df000 > > You seem to have two IO APICs. You need > > options NAPIC=2 # number of IO APICs > > in the kernel config, *and* the following patch to sys/i386/i386/pmap.c > (this patch is in 3.4-STABLE, but not in 3.4-RELEASE). thanx .... it is working now. though frankly i am still clueless about how it is working. are there any docs about SMP on freebsd?? joy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message