Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:12:16 -0500 From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) To: FreeBSD AMD list <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SMP system not running SMP Message-ID: <200606232112.k5NLCGrh010684@guild.plethora.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:08:24 EDT." <E43C8266-1A60-49D5-868F-1569DB1C3EFC@khera.org>
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In message <E43C8266-1A60-49D5-868F-1569DB1C3EFC@khera.org>, Vivek Khera writes : >On Jun 23, 2006, at 7:07 AM, Peter Seebach wrote: >> There are two possible paths to fixing this: One is to make SMP >> work without >> ACPI. Since NetBSD was booting SMP on this machine with ACPI >> disabled in the >> BIOS, I assume that's theoretically possible. The other is to >> figure out >Just jumping in this thread mid-stream (since I just recognized your >name from the old BSDI days)... Hey! Good to see you agin! >did you try just disabling ACPI timer >only? This seems to be quite a popular cause of hang during boot. >I have one box that needs it. I did not. I will investigate this, it sounds inherently plausible. -s
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