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Date:      Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:22:08 +0200
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein_Andreassen?= <oystein.andreassen@systec.no>
To:        "'Ruben de Groot'" <fbsd-q@bzerk.org>, Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
Cc:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Freebsd and multi-cpu systems
Message-ID:  <E0B92A48AF8CD31185EA0008C778E0914D4732@SKYWALKER>

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You need a SMP motherboard. But you DON'T need two or more cpu's.

I removed a cpu from a dual system. I replaced the cpu with one of =
those
dummy tingys,
restarted the server and it was up and running. :)

The kernel says:
APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 =
intpin
2
APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0



=D8ystein

-----Original Message-----
From: Ruben de Groot [mailto:fbsd-q@bzerk.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 13:08
To: Ceri Davies
Cc: Dan Nelson; FreeBSD Questions
Subject: Re: Freebsd and multi-cpu systems


On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:45:40AM +0100, Ceri Davies typed:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:27:25PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >=20
> > Just add
> >=20
> > options      SMP                  # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> > options      APIC_IO              # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
> >=20
> > to your kernel and rebuild.  The resulting kernel will only boot on =
SMP
> > hardware, though, so don't try and boot it on a regular desktop.
>=20
> I don't think you're correct that the kernel will only boot on SMP
hardware.
> Of course, I've never checked this, so if you have then I'll =
apologise in
> advance.

Dan is correct. The kernel will panic.

>=20
> Ceri
>=20
> --=20
> you can't see when light's so strong
> you can't see when light is gone
>=20
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