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Date:      Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:44:23 -0600
From:      "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com>
To:        "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org>, "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370 
Message-ID:  <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10476BD1A@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>

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Thanks for the info.  I've found a ML370 G3 and will look into this
today or tommorrow.

I'll be in touch.

Thanks,
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Wemm [mailto:peter@wemm.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:32 AM
> To: John Baldwin
> Cc: Cagle, John (ISS-Houston); freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370 
> 
> 
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > 
> > On 15-Jan-2003 Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote:
> > > That's a vicious rumor -- no operating system could work without 
> > > clock interrupts in SMP mode...  Could it?
> > 
> > I think it had something to do more with the RTC interrupt 
> not being 
> > routed to the I/O APIC and FreeBSD currently can only 
> handle the ISA 
> > timer interrupt being only rounted to the 8259A PICs.  
> Thus, FreeBSD 
> > hangs because it doesn't get any interrupts from the RTC 
> via the I/O 
> > APIC.  I couldn't remmeber the exact details earlier hence the 
> > vagueness of my message.
> 
> The same problem happens with a newer DL380 that we have 
> here.  G3 I think, but I can never keep track of all the new toys. :-)

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