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Date:      Mon, 04 Feb 2002 22:10:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andy Ellifson <andy@ellifson.com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject:   Re: Abit VP6 Dual Processor Board
Message-ID:  <XFMail.020204221046.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020204153839.25515.qmail@web10503.mail.yahoo.com>

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On 04-Feb-02 Andy Ellifson wrote:
> 
> The issue I have is when I do do the same installation on a Compaq DL380 with
> dual processors dmesg says the following:
> 
> SMP: AP CPU #0 Launched!
> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
> 
> Then when I go into 'top' it will show both processors.

Err, are you sure?  We never print that for CPU 0, as it is the boot CPU and
doesn't need any launching.  We only "launch" secondary processors.  The output
below is expected output for a dual processor machine.

> On this Abit board it only shows the second processor launching (#1) and top
> only shows one processor instead of two.

Errr, how are you judging that.  Do you have any 0's in the 'C' column?

> --- Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
>> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
>> 
>> MUA mangles quoted text.
>> 
>> On Saturday,  2 February 2002 at 19:40:07 -0800, Andy Ellifson wrote:
>> > --- Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> >> On Saturday,  2 February 2002 at 15:06:12 -0800, Andy Ellifson wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I have an Abit VP6 Dual processor board and I am unable to get the
>> >>> second CPU to launch under FreeBSD v4.4-RELEASE or v4.5-RELEASE
>> >>> after compiling the kernel for SMP.
>> >>>
>> >>> The web site for the motherboard is:
>> >>> http://www.abit-usa.com/eng/product/mb/vp6.htm
>> >>>
>> >>> Is this one of the boards that doesn't fully support Intel MP spec
>> >>> and therefore will not run under SMP as a dual-processor system?
>> >>
>> >> Very unlikely.  I don't think they've made any of those for some
>> >> time.  What does dmesg say?
>> >
>> > Here is what dmesg says:
>> >
>> > FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb  1 09:39:02 MST 2002
>> >     root@mesaaz1.vwsi.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL
>> > <snip>
>> > IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
>> > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard
>> >  cpu0 (BSP): apic id:  0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
>> >  cpu1 (AP):  apic id:  1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
>> >  io0 (APIC): apic id:  2, version: 0x00178011, at 0xfec00000
>> > <snip>
>> > APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
>> > APIC_IO: routing 8254 via IOAPIC #0 intpin 2
>> > SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
>> 
>> So what makes you think it isn't being launched?
>> 
>> Greg
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