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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:37:34 -0600 (CST)
From:      James Schmidt <james@JamesSchmidt.Com>
To:        Michael Richards <michael@fastmail.ca>
Cc:        beemern@ksu.edu, <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Intel SE7500CW2 narrowed down...
Message-ID:  <20021203223549.R86634-100000@speedy.insekure.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DED5E06.00000D.37680@ns.interchange.ca>

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I'm glad that there is still someone working on this issue.  As I am stuck
with this system board, no kernel programming expertise, and unable to
migrate to any other OS, this effort is greatly appreciated.  Don't give
up :)

-James Schmidt


On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Michael Richards wrote:

> > You're covering already covered ground
> > if you'll check the last few months archives, you'll see this
> > issue with the SE7500CW2 addressed and re-addressed time and again
>
> I actually did a lot of searching and wasn't able to find any machdep
> code with debugging added.
>
> > i *was* waiting on a fix, and then thought perhaps fbsd 5.0 with
> > its SMPng would be the answer... however, after comparing
> > mach_dep.c etc from the 4.x tree and the current tree, i doubt
> > thats an answer
>
> It's been confirmed that DP2 doesn't fix the problem. Instead of
> waiting for someone to fix this I'm putting time into it myself. John
> is feeding me some patches and we're trying to get it fixed.
>
> > the good news?  linux works great (windows too for that matter),
> > and having converted, i'm now fully smp functional
>
> That's good news for me. I can look at the linux code and see if
> they're initialising the AP any differently. Unfortunately linux's
> verion 2.0.43-patchlevel-4-subpatch-344-build-82 just ends up being
> too much of a headache to admin.
>
> -Michael
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