From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Apr 3 05:50:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA06370 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 05:50:23 -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 FAA06363 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 05:50:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14663; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:49:59 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199804031349.PAA14663@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD detecting both of my processors ? In-Reply-To: <352ae0c8.73077213@mailhost.shellnet.co.uk> from Steven Fletcher at "Apr 3, 98 01:17:20 pm" To: ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk (Steven Fletcher) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:49:59 +0200 (MEST) Cc: yubyub@j51.com, freebsd-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 Steven Fletcher who wrote: > >You're right - it doesn't look like it's found your second CPU. From what > >I know, the SMP kernel doesn't rely on having more than one processor. It > >relies on running on an SMP motherboard, i.e. there must be an APIC (which > >a "normal" uniprocessor board lacks). As long is there is an APIC, you > >should be able to run SMP. > > This is the bit that confuses me. As NT has been installed on the > machine before, it recognised both processors as seperate > entities..... yet FreeBSD cant see 'em. Without telling us precicely what hardware we are talking about, there really is not much we can help with :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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