From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Feb 3 14:52:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA25862 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 14:52:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA25853 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 14:52:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA12557 for smp@freebsd.org; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 23:52:19 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id XAA14436; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 23:50:14 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 23:50:09 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: smp@freebsd.org Subject: My first SMP kernel... X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've built my first SMP kernel today, in order to test it a little before putting the SMP source onto my CD-ROM that's going to be handed out to the participiants of the GUUG Spring Meeting by end of february. My testboard is an older ASUS PCI/EISA dual-CPU board with a Neptune chipset, running at 90 MHz still. (The second CPU was actually a 133 MHz one, but that shouldn't matter.) I've grabbed all the CTM deltas from freefall's ftp area, and checked out the most recent kernel source. Well, i didn't get this kernel to work stable, it crashed all over the place. :-( At best, it could get away to run something like `make obj', at worst, i couldn't even log in since the shell crashed immediately (sig 4, sig 11 etc.). Note that this even happened when running this kernel uni-processor, while the old (3.0-current) kernel.GENERIC ran fine on identical hardware. The SCSI controller is an AHA2742, but i didn't see SCSI errors, so it must be more a VM thingie. I tried to make the SMP options in the config file as benign as possible (just only SMP, NCPU, NBUS, and the APIC stuff, no whistles and bells), but still no go. Is this only me, am i doing something seriously wrong, or is it that i shouldn't put this source tree onto a CD-ROM at all? (Please, keep me on the Cc list.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)