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]=20 > 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=20 >=20 >=20 > John Baldwin wrote: > >=20 > > On 15-Jan-2003 Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote: > > > That's a vicious rumor -- no operating system could work without=20 > > > clock interrupts in SMP mode... Could it? > >=20 > > I think it had something to do more with the RTC interrupt=20 > not being=20 > > routed to the I/O APIC and FreeBSD currently can only=20 > handle the ISA=20 > > timer interrupt being only rounted to the 8259A PICs. =20 > Thus, FreeBSD=20 > > hangs because it doesn't get any interrupts from the RTC=20 > via the I/O=20 > > APIC. I couldn't remmeber the exact details earlier hence the=20 > > vagueness of my message. >=20 > The same problem happens with a newer DL380 that we have=20 > here. G3 I think, but I can never keep track of all the new toys. :-) <snip> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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