From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jan 17 5:47: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from dozer.skynet.be (dozer.skynet.be [195.238.2.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF5214C94 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 05:46:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by dozer.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id OAA20002 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 14:46:49 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000116125815.A88640@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <20000116002113.B75768@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000116125815.A88640@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 13:03:30 +0100 To: smp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: PNPBIOS + Dell PowerEdge = panic() Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:58 PM +0100 2000/1/16, Ollivier Robert wrote: > Speaking of PowerEdge, do we support them in SMP under -STABLE ? A friend of > mine has tried to run 3.4-R in SMP mode on one of them and it doesn't like it > apparently. Sorry if I don't have more info as he's now on vacation... > > It doesn't like the 2nd APIC in the system AFAIK. Any more idea ? I've got a PowerEdge 1300 running two PIII CPUs and 3.2 (RELEASE? STABLE? I'm not sure), and it seems to be running just fine. I've heard from others on either the -current or -stable lists that they're doing just fine with other PowerEdge hardware configs, and I believe even later versions of the OS. In fact, you might know the machine that I'm using in this role -- didn't we recently add you as a peer? ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message