Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 18:47:13 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My first SMP kernel... Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970203184610.12858N-100000@uplink.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970203235009.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > 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.) Joerg, did you get the mptable program from the smp page, and what did it report about your board? http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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