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Date:      Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:04:12 -0600
From:      "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com>
To:        "Peter Marrinon" <peterm@telstra.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Support for Compaq/HP DL380 G3
Message-ID:  <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10440E3C5@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>

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You can also set the OS for Windows 2000.  That makes the "Auto"
setting for MPS Table Mode to be Full Table (not Mapped), which
may be a little more efficient w.r.t. interrupt distribution.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Saab [mailto:ps@freebsd.org]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:29 PM
> To: Peter Marrinon
> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Support for Compaq/HP DL380 G3
>=20
> Just set the operating system to Linux and you dont have to=20
> worry about changing the other settings.
>=20
> Be aware, the ethernet device may not always come up with a=20
> miibus. I still need to MFC the following patch to make it=20
> work reliably.
>=20
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=20
> with FreeBSD 4-STABLE (as at 5/2/2003).
>=20
> Within BIOS, it is necessary to change the "MPS Table Mode" to "Full=20
> Table APIC" or "Full Table Mapped". Note, unlike "Auto", these two=20
> options apparently ignore the Operating System option (which I have=20
> set to "Other OS").
>=20
> One thing I have noticed is that it does not seem to matter whether=20
> "Processing Hyper-Threading" is set to enabled or disabled - in either

> case HTT is a feature that FreeBSD sees.

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