From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 4:22:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AA137B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 04:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.systec.no (skywalker.systec.no [80.64.196.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C6243E42 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 04:22:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oystein.andreassen@systec.no) Received: from skywalker.systec.no (isa.systec.no [192.168.100.3]) by relay.systec.no (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7LBNhSX015565; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:23:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oystein.andreassen@systec.no) Received: by SKYWALKER with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:22:09 +0200 Message-ID: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein_Andreassen?= To: "'Ruben de Groot'" , Ceri Davies Cc: Dan Nelson , FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: Freebsd and multi-cpu systems Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:22:08 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message