From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Jun 9 23:55:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10511 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 23:55:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA10501 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 23:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01549; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 08:55:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199806100655.IAA01549@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: SMP not working anymore In-Reply-To: from Kyle Mestery at "Jun 9, 98 07:44:35 pm" To: mestery@winternet.com (Kyle Mestery) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 08:55:06 +0200 (CEST) Cc: gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov, smp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In reply to Kyle Mestery who wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > I have not been able to get an SMP kernel to boot on a dual PPro, 200MHz, > > Micronics motherboard. I do not know the exact model of the motherboard but > > can find out. The last time I was able to get an SMP kernel to boot on this > > system was around the end of May. It immediately locks up with the following > > message: > > > > panic: mpfps Base Table Hosed! > > > I have a dual PPro Micronics motherboard (W6-LI), and it works fine. I am > running a kernel from June 3rd now, but I have tried a kernel from June 7 > with no problem (including John Dyson's SMP changes). If your mptable is > hosed, I wonder if something else in your BIOS is hosed maybe. Well I had that exact probelm with my TYAN S1662D board too, until I upgraded to TYAN latest BIOS (v5.01). The problem seem to be nonstd entries in the mp tables. However if you comment out the two panics in mp_machdep.c the system will run just fine and ignore the bogus entries... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message