From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 4 13: 8:17 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 13:08:13 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from manston.placeware.com (unknown [209.1.15.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2BCB37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:08:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from aberwrach.placeware.com (dhcp-10-1-2-172.placeware.com [10.1.2.172]) by manston.placeware.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id XRYR4K17; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:10:56 -0800 Message-Id: <5.0.1.4.0.20001204131259.018fa300@manston> X-Sender: plb@manston (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.1 Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 13:15:10 -0800 To: danh@gelatinous.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Philippe Le Berre Subject: Re: stable + smp problem In-Reply-To: <20001203002114.34959.qmail@cube.gelatinous.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Have a look in the 4.2 Release Notes, << The NCPU, NAPIC, NBUS, and NINTR kernel configuration options, for configuring SMP kernels, have been removed. NCPU is now set to a maximum of 16, and the other, aforementioned options are now dynamic. >> That's may be reason. -philippe At 03/12/2000 00:21 +0000, danh@gelatinous.com wrote: >Up until recently my HP Vectra with 2 pentium pro 180 processors >ran freebsd 4.1-stable succesfully with a SMP kernel with no >weird tweaking involved. I commented in the 2 SMP lines in the >generic kernel config, compiled, rebooted, and it worked fine. > >A few days ago I cvsuped to freebsd 4.2-stable and SMP refuses to work > >after attempting to boot with a 4.2 stable SMP kernel, the machine >locks up very early in the boot process here: > > > > Changing APIC ID for IO APIC # from 16 to 2 in MP table > Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #0 > IOAPIC # intpn 2 -> irq 0 > > >now I am successfully running a non SMP freebsd 4.2-stable kernel, >but I kind of miss my 2nd processor. > >any ideas why this would happen? > >thanks. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message