Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:53:46 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: New i386 interrupt and SMP code.. Message-ID: <20031030225346.GB5173@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20031030173447.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.20031030173447.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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--K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:34:47PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > - The ACPI MADT table can be used to enumerate CPUs instead of > the MP Table if ACPI is enabled. This will add true HT support > in that we will finally support the BIOS setting for HT. Will there be an option to ignore the BIOS and do something like the current system? I'm all for paying attention to the BIOS, but I've got over 75 Xeons in my cluster and if they have the wrong BIOS settings, this is going to hurt when we switch to 5.x. Overall, I'm looking forward to this change. The death of the SMP kernel is something I've been looking forward to for a long time. -- Brooks --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oZZ4XY6L6fI4GtQRArrWAJ0fO2s8f27vKtBnqTb2MZbW4TtJMQCeO9uX Ibrx4lJcw6fJElvGn/3+H0g= =m6YL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h--
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