From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Nov 27 12:38:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-smp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10623 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:38:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from kvikk.uit.no (kvikk.Uit.No [129.242.4.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA10617 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:38:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprint.cc.uit.no (sprint.Cc.Uit.No [129.242.5.198]) by kvikk.uit.no (8.7.3/8.7.1) with ESMTP id VAA18795; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:38:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from slibo.cc.uit.no (slibo.Cc.Uit.No [129.242.5.36]) by sprint.cc.uit.no (8.8.0/8.8.0) with ESMTP id VAA21402; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:38:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (terjem@localhost) by slibo.cc.uit.no (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA04476; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:38:28 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199611272038.VAA04476@slibo.cc.uit.no> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Steve Passe cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: sys/i386/i386 locore.s swtch.s sys/i386/include pmap.h In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:55:14 MET." <199611271955.MAA16277@clem.systemsix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:38:28 +0100 From: Terje Normann Marthinussen Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >the program 'mptable' (on the SMP web page) will analyze your >board and create a definitive "options" list for your config file. The >defaults are set to the minimums to avoid kernel bloat. I want to keep >extended examination of the MP table out of the kernel, again to avoid >bloat, hence the mptable tool. Maybe I should make the message suggest >mptable? Yes, I know of mptable, used it to find the right number. But don't you already examine the table when you discover that NBUS is to low? >--- >> However then came: >> BIOS basemem (633K) != RTC basemem (640K), setting to BIOS value >> unknown bus type: 'XPRESS' >> >> Followed by panic... >> Argh, haven't had time to study what it would like to know about the bus. >> If it is something special, anyone that has enough information to do >> something about it? >> ... >> Well, it worked in earlier releases, so I quickly commented out the panic() >> and continued. Just didn't have the patience :) > >if you don't need to use anything on the XPRESS bus it should be simple, >I'll look at it later today... Well, I'm not really sure what the XPRESS bus is. I'm a bit new to these machines. I would suspect it to be the system bus? If so, I would suspect that the PCI busses and CPU cards are already on it? The only slots in it that is non pci/eisa are those that the CPU and memory cards are plugged into. Shall see if I can find something (there isn't much documentation on these boxes here) later. Have to do some other work now. Terje Marthinussen terjem@cc.uit.no