Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:59:40 -0700 From: Erich Boleyn <erich@uruk.org> To: Eoin Lawless <eoin@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual PII 450 Iwill DBL00 and DBS100 Message-ID: <E0zTTKv-0001cb-00@uruk.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:48:25 BST." <9810131448.aa21100@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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Eoin Lawless <eoin@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> We are trying to use a dual PII 450 Iwill motherboard with FreeBSD
> (sources current to 9 October, using elf). We've tried both the
> DBL100 and DBS100. Unfortunately the second processor does not
> seem to behave correctly. It runs, but only at about 1% of the
> correct speed. This is even reported by the CD provided with the
> motherboard (which boots a Linux kernel).
>
> The motherboard does run correctly with NT. This leads us to believe
> that the BIOS is not enabeling the second CPU correctly. Also NT reports
> a MPS of 1.4 while FreeBSD and Linux report 1.1 regardless of the
> setting in the BIOS.
Hmmm... I know there have been updates of the MP Spec since 1.4, but
I didn't think any of them changed how the version numbers were checked.
Is there a special NT MP "hal.dll" version that you run with the machine?
(I've seen this for a few machines... the manufacturer gives a floppy with
a special NT HAL layer to fix hardware bugs/improve their specific machine)
If nothing else, I have an SMP BIOS checker that runs outside of an
OS I'd like you to try.
--
Erich Stefan Boleyn \_ <erich@uruk.org>
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