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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:07:43 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Turion X2 Laptop SMP Problem
Message-ID:  <200610241607.43614.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <453A56D8.8020402@visi.com>
References:  <453A56D8.8020402@visi.com>

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On Saturday 21 October 2006 13:20, Dan Olson wrote:
> 
> Hello All
> 
> I just bought a HP dv6119us Turion X2 laptop and can't seem to get it to 
> do SMP.
> 
> To get it to boot I have to add to the boot prompt or loader.conf
> 
> set hint.apic.0.disabled=1
> set hint.sio.0.disabled=1
> set hint.sio.1.disabled=1
> 
> When booting with apic enabled the system slows to a crawl and the 
> keyboard input is slow.  To slow to register key events or log in.
> 
> Below is a verbose dmesg with apic disabled on 6.2 beta2.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on getting SMP to work or diagnosing 
> the problem?
> 
> I've seen another complaint from July 06 but no resolution.
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2006-July/008508.html
> 
> I'm working on submitting a PR for this.

Can you leave APIC enabled but disable just SMP via kern.smp.disabled=1 to see 
if it boots up ok?

-- 
John Baldwin



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