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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 14:16:59 -0700
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
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Subject: HP rx2600 boots SMP
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Gang,

The EPC overhaul that is planned for 5.1 has some nice side-effects. It
gets our rx2600 boxes to boot with SMP:

\begin{dmesg snippet}
	:
Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Apr 26 13:40:19 PDT 2003
    marcel@pluto2.freebsd.org:/q/scratch/marcel/ia64_epc/sys/ia64/compile/PLUTO-MP
	:
SMP: waking up cpu1
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
cpu0: SAPIC Id=0, SAPIC Eid=0 (BSP)
cpu1: SAPIC Id=1, SAPIC Eid=0
	:
\end{dmesg snippet}

\begin{sysctl sbippet}
pluto2# sysctl -a hw
hw.machine: ia64
hw.model: Itanium 2
hw.ncpu: 2
	:
\end{sysctl snippet}

More info will follow after I stress tested it a bit more...

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net