From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Dec 3 20:38:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 701F837B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:38:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from speedy.insekure.com (gotroot.insekure.com [207.254.222.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC0343EAF for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:38:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james@JamesSchmidt.Com) Received: from localhost (james@localhost.insekure.com [127.0.0.1]) by speedy.insekure.com (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gB44bYXK086648; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:37:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from james@JamesSchmidt.Com) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:37:34 -0600 (CST) From: James Schmidt X-X-Sender: james@speedy.insekure.com To: Michael Richards Cc: beemern@ksu.edu, Subject: Re: Intel SE7500CW2 narrowed down... In-Reply-To: <3DED5E06.00000D.37680@ns.interchange.ca> Message-ID: <20021203223549.R86634-100000@speedy.insekure.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > _________________________________________________________________ > http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Secure Web Email for Canadians To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message