From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 12:18:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC8E16A492 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:18:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seebs@plethora.net) Received: from herd.plethora.net (herd.plethora.net [205.166.146.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0699443D46 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:18:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from seebs@plethora.net) Received: from guild.plethora.net (guild.plethora.net [205.166.146.8]) by herd.plethora.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FBA331E48 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:18:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from guild.plethora.net (seebs@localhost) by guild.plethora.net (8.13.3/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5NCKlop020444 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:20:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200606231220.k5NCKlop020444@guild.plethora.net> X-Authentication-Warning: guild.plethora.net: seebs owned process doing -bs From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:01:02 BST." Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:20:47 -0500 Subject: Re: SMP system not running SMP X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Peter Seebach List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:18:29 -0000 In message , Pete French writes : >> BIOS, I assume that's theoretically possible. The other is to figure out >> why the machine hangs during waiting for devices to settle with ACPI enabled. >That's the preferred path I think - I'd also like to see if this is SCSI >in general or just Adaptec SCSI. As I also have a ciss caard in my >machine I will try it both ways. Cool. I don't have any relevant non-Adaptec SCSI to hand, although it might be interesting to try it with a very old Symbios card. Do we have any cases of this failing on systems with add-on SCSI cards, or is it always the onboard SCSI? >> I'm not sure which list fits this best; there's not really a good list for >> "anything happening on an Opteron whether or not it's in amd64 mode". > >I have been thinking about this - it's probably not the Opteron per-se, bbut >the chipset used to support it. What chipset is used on your motherboard ? According to SuperMicro: * AMD 8131 HyperTransport PCI-X Tunnel * AMD 8111 HyperTransport I/O Hub -s