From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Jul 19 05:39:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA23924 for smp-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 05:39:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ic.net (qmailr@srv1b.ic.net [152.160.72.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA23916 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 05:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3665 invoked from network); 19 Jul 1997 12:39:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lurch.rickl.org) (152.160.108.34) by unknown with SMTP; 19 Jul 1997 12:39:23 -0000 Received: from lurch.rickl.org (lurch.rickl.org [192.168.255.1]) by lurch.rickl.org (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA03618; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 08:39:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 08:39:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Lotoczky Reply-To: Rick Lotoczky Subject: Re: HEADS UP: major timer/APIC code changes. To: smp@csn.net cc: smp@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Jul 18, 1997 at 10:43:14PM -0600, Steve Passe wrote: > > Please send me reports for ANY new kernel builds, working or not. I need > to know ASAP whether I've broken anything. This is one of those changes > that may behave differently on various hardware. > > The affected code is identifiable by sys/i386/include/smptests.h: > > * $Id: smptests.h,v 1.13 1997/07/19 03:56:30 fsmp Exp $ -current of today and SMP kernel of today (7/19/97). the uniprocessor kernel runs fine, but the SMP kernel panics with something like "can't physically attach 8254 to PIN0" This is a SuperMicro P6DOF motherboard. Last kernel built was 7/13/97 and all seemed to work okay. How do I disable the automatic attachment of PIN0 to the 8254?? rick