From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 27 22:58:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C51716A41F for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:58:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8A743D49 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:58:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.14] (imini.samsco.home [192.168.254.14]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jBRMw213017601; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:58:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <43B1C6FA.3070601@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:58:02 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomas Randa References: <20051221204149.GM56798@tigerfish2.my.domain> <200512212204.jBLM4rrR037479@peedub.jennejohn.org> <43B1BBE5.6030900@hosting50.cz> In-Reply-To: <43B1BBE5.6030900@hosting50.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual core CPUs support for the second time X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:58:04 -0000 Tomas Randa wrote: > Hello again, > > I`d like to thank for all responses, but my testing of everything was > unsuccessfull in motherboard I have :( > I have one general question? Could it be, because I am using this modern > motherboard with modern chipset which could be unsupported in FBSD? > My motherboard is very new SuperMicro H8SSL-i with ServerWorks HT1000 > chipset, but in his BIOS, there are correctly written 2 cores in 1 > physical CPU and CPU is recognized as dual core Athlon 64 X2 > > What is confusing me is dmesg - for example from current/i386 - system > show correctly 2 cores per package, but second CPU is not launched or > recognized by ioapic. > > I tried upgrade BIOS with unofficial version, which sent me technical > support of SuperMicro, but no change. > > DMESG attached to this message > > > Thanks a lot for any help. > > Tomas Randa > I don't see anything in your dmesg about the APIC devices that should be there. Did you somehow omit that from your kernel config, or have it disabled in /boot/loader.conf? Without the apic device, the other CPU's can't get started. Can you run 'acpidump -d -t' and 'mptable'? Are you running an i386 or amd64 kernel? Scott