From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Mar 26 17:48:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.hub.org (SHW12-37.accesscable.net [24.71.155.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3329B37B71A for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:48:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by mobile.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2R1mJQ03996; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:48:19 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: mobile.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:48:19 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Tom Duffey Cc: Subject: Re: Followup of Netfinity 3500 M20 SMP problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Tom Duffey wrote: > I'm using the 4.2-RELEASE kernel. Is this patch available or do I need to > upgrade the server sources? I'd love to give it a try. Okay, I'm running 4.3-BETA on my 5500 ... I'm not sure when, after 4.2-RELEASE, the patch was applied, but I'd recommend just "going all the way" ... If you do go this route, I've noticed some intermediant problems between 4.2-RELEASE and current sources, so if that machine is semi-production, make sure you do: make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot make buildworld just so that your world is ready ... the 'problems' were fixed once I got the world up to date with the kernel ... > > Tom Duffey > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > sorry, hadn't been following this ... what version of kernel are you > > running? I had problems with a 5500 series, but upgrading to -stable > > shortly after, I think, there was a patch for a similar problem with > > Compaq ... > > > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Tom Duffey wrote: > > > > > Still no luck making the SMPized kernel boot on the Netfinity > > > M20. Another person with the same machine has contacted me and reports > > > the same problem, so it is could be a bug in the kernel or some hardware > > > incompatibility specific to these machines. > > > > > > Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. Unfortunately, this box has to > > > leave later this week so please let me know if there is anything else I > > > can provide that might help solve the problem. > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > > Tom Duffey > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > > > > > > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy > > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message