From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Feb 24 11:32:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA21159 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:32:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA21074; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:31:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00456; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:31:29 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199802241931.UAA00456@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: mpfps Base Table HOSED! In-Reply-To: <199802241926.MAA00440@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> from Steve Passe at "Feb 24, 98 12:26:29 pm" To: smp@csn.net (Steve Passe) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:31:29 +0100 (MET) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In reply to Steve Passe who wrote: > > > > > > > > This is because there is some new entries in the tabel with type # 176 > > > > and the system doesn't understand those (mp_machdep.c). > > > > I've temporarily disabled the panic for those values and the system > > > > runs without problems... > > > > Any ideas of what those values mean ?? > > > > Should we let them pass without panic'ing ?? > > > > > > I just searched the Intel site, nothing newer than MPspec 1.4 there. > > > Page 4-6 of the 1-4 spec lists the legal types, and says "All other type > > > codes are reserved". So if we want to be correct this should probably > > > be handled as a "rogue hardware" situation till we have reason to believe > > > otherwise. > > > > Well, I've put in a case for 176 to just ignore that value, the system > > is rock stable still, so its not of much importance... > > Is there any precedence on how we handle these, by config option ?? > > Traditionally I've used config options, perhaps 'IGNORE_MPTABLE_176' > would be good. Then document it in LINT in the SMP section. Well, I'll keep it in my tree for now, lets see if it shows up on other systems. In the meantime I'll try to find out what its there for... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message