From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 28 00:10:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org 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 6982C16A407; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:10:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danolson@visi.com) Received: from cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com (cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25AB443D45; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:10:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danolson@visi.com) Received: from [192.168.240.220] (danolson.dsl.visi.com [209.98.225.50]) by cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC53E8110; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:10:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <45429FFF.40305@visi.com> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:10:39 -0500 From: Dan Olson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061014) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <453A56D8.8020402@visi.com> <200610241607.43614.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200610241607.43614.jhb@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Turion X2 Laptop SMP Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:10:46 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > On Saturday 21 October 2006 13:20, Dan Olson wrote: >> Hello All >> >> I just bought a HP dv6119us Turion X2 laptop and can't seem to get it to >> do SMP. >> >> To get it to boot I have to add to the boot prompt or loader.conf >> >> set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 >> set hint.sio.0.disabled=1 >> set hint.sio.1.disabled=1 >> >> When booting with apic enabled the system slows to a crawl and the >> keyboard input is slow. To slow to register key events or log in. >> >> Below is a verbose dmesg with apic disabled on 6.2 beta2. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions on getting SMP to work or diagnosing >> the problem? >> >> I've seen another complaint from July 06 but no resolution. >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2006-July/008508.html >> >> I'm working on submitting a PR for this. > > Can you leave APIC enabled but disable just SMP via kern.smp.disabled=1 to see > if it boots up ok? > Sorry for the delay. Real life intruded. Using: set kern.smp.diabled=1 boot at the loader prompt doesn't fix it. The same symptoms persist I've filed a pr with more info with a verbose boot message with apic enabled. i386/104678 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/104678 Thanks for taking an interest in this. Dan