From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Feb 1 20:28:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA29509 for smp-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 20:28:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from smerdon.livonia.mi.us (root@pm233-27.dialip.mich.net [198.110.144.128]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA29504 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 20:28:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from p133 (e0.i386.smerdon.livonia.mi.us [199.33.147.37]) by smerdon.livonia.mi.us (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA12353; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 23:28:00 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970201232751.00e31450@smerdon.livonia.mi.us> X-Sender: jds@smerdon.livonia.mi.us X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 23:27:53 -0500 To: Steve Passe From: "John D. Smerdon" Subject: Re: Tyan Tomcat II SMP video problems Cc: smp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 10:52 AM 2/1/97 -0700, Steve Passe wrote: >options SMP_INVLTLB > >set when using APIC_IO? this is MANDATORY (but ONLY with APIC_IO). I had it set with and without APIC_IO. A just compiled a kernel without APIC_IO and SMP_INVLTLB and it works! I just rebuilt most of the kernel with a `make -j 8` >this smells like hardware to me. I believe this board is the one that had >a problem with its cache module. The motherboard came with the "new and improved" cache module. I have been using Windows NT since October and getting FreeBSD installed and configured over the last couple months and have never had a single crash. So I think the hardware is good. >the only thing that jumps out is having ep0 on IRQ15, try to keep everything >off of 14 & 15. While trying to get a configuration that worked with NT, FreeBSD, and PNP, I stuck the ep0 on IRQ 15. I can try to move it somewhere else and see what happens. Thanks for your help! -- John D. Smerdon; Livonia, Michigan, USA; Contents are my opinion. Home: jds@smerdon.livonia.mi.us