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Date:      Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:28:54 -0800
From:      Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Marrinon <peterm@telstra.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Support for Compaq/HP DL380 G3
Message-ID:  <20030205232854.GA58558@yahoo-inc.com>
In-Reply-To: <001201c2cd67$1d624420$15008590@GALAXY>
References:  <001201c2cd67$1d624420$15008590@GALAXY>

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Just set the operating system to Linux and you dont have to worry about
changing the other settings.

Be aware, the ethernet device may not always come up with a miibus.
I still need to MFC the following patch to make it work reliably.

http://people.freebsd.org/~ps/bge.diff

Peter Marrinon (peterm@telstra.net) wrote:
> I have successfully got SMP with HTT working on a Compaq/HP DL380 G3 with
> FreeBSD 4-STABLE (as at 5/2/2003).
> 
> Within BIOS, it is necessary to change the "MPS Table Mode" to "Full Table
> APIC" or "Full Table Mapped". Note, unlike "Auto", these two options
> apparently ignore the Operating System option (which I have set to "Other
> OS").
> 
> One thing I have noticed is that it does not seem to matter whether
> "Processing Hyper-Threading" is set to enabled or disabled - in either case
> HTT is a feature that FreeBSD sees.

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