From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 17 08:41:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2AE216A4CE for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 08:41:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from eskimo.tundraware.com (eskimo.tundraware.com [64.2.229.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C0543D41 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 08:41:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by eskimo.tundraware.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j3H8fW45046703 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 03:41:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4262213C.1090905@tundraware.com> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 03:41:32 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4262074B.5040208@tundraware.com> <20050417075813.GV89047@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050417075813.GV89047@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com Subject: Re: Enabling HTT On A Uniproc w/4.11-Stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 08:41:36 -0000 Thanks for the prompt response! > On Sun, 2005-Apr-17 01:50:51 -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > >> How do I enable hyperthreading on a Uniprocessor p4 system. >> I tried my usual SMP kernel options (SMP and APIC) but, of course, >> the kernel cannot find an APIC. I have set the appropriate option >> in loader.conf to enable hyperthreading but, No Joy. Should I >> use the SMP option alone here? > > > > You definitely need APIC for SMP and the APIC is part of the iA32 spec > so I'm sure you have one somewhere. At a quick guess, I suspect you > haven't enabled the APIC in your BIOS - check for an option that > allows you to select between PIC and APIC interrupt types. There seems to be no such option on this MB. > > If that's not the problem, we need more information: Motherboard/BIOS > type and at least the beginning of a verbose boot (down to about the > pci0 probe). > Machine is a Gateway BIOS appears to be Intel - well there is no other BIOS mfg named. BIOS ID is: PT84510A.15A.0004.P02.0112051220 Here is some of the dmesg - I infer from the Features line that HTT means this is hyperthread-enabled: -------------------------------- FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #1: Fri Apr 15 03:41:33 CDT 2005 toor@security.tundraware.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/UNI Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz (1993.54-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf24 Stepping = 4 Features=0x3febfbff real memory = 536608768 (524032K bytes) avail memory = 516800512 (504688K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc052b000. Warning: Pentium 4 CPU: PSE disabled VESA: v3.0, 65536k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc0493502 (1000022) VESA: NVidia Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk Using $PIR table, 13 entries at 0xc00f2ce0 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 agp0: mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/