From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Aug 17 14:15:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21702 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21680 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22521; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:14:43 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd022502; Mon Aug 17 14:14:40 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA08860; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:14:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808172114.OAA08860@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: PR440fx (Toshiba) + SMP ? To: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 21:14:39 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980817220046.44173@deepo.prosa.dk> from "Philippe Regnauld" at Aug 17, 98 10:00:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > But FreeBSD insists on seeing only one CPU -- I've even tried hardwiring > with NCPU=2, to no avail. I've also tried playing with the BIOS > SMP settings (1.1 or 1.4) -- no luck... Use 1.4. [ ... ] > MP Config Base Table Entries: > > -- > Processors: APIC ID Version State Family Model Step Flags > 0 0x11 BSP, usable 6 1 9 0xfbff > -- > Bus: Bus ID Type You have failed to tell your BIOS that you have a second CPU; therefore it has failed to configure the APIC ID on the second CPU, or otherwise identify it in the mptable so that FreeBSD can see it. A correctly configured BIOS will show two processors with different APIC ID's under the "Processors:" section in the mptable. Fix this, and your system should "just work", unless your clock doesn't go through your APIC, in which case you will need to twiddle a bit. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message