From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 5 16: 4:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B307237B405 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:04:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com (ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com [161.114.1.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE98443FBF for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:04:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.cagle@hp.com) Received: from cceexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net (cceexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net [16.110.250.125]) by ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF434CA; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:04:13 -0600 (CST) Received: from cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net ([16.110.250.85]) by cceexg11.americas.cpqcorp.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:04:13 -0600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Support for Compaq/HP DL380 G3 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:04:12 -0600 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Support for Compaq/HP DL380 G3 Thread-Index: AcLNbmE+JVEGBm7BTCa1RB64z7vjkQAA7cBQ From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" To: "Peter Marrinon" Cc: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2003 00:04:13.0083 (UTC) FILETIME=[47E3A6B0:01C2CD73] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message