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Date:      Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:41:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michael Richards <michael@fastmail.ca>
Cc:        smp@freebsd.org, jrf4772@ksu.edu
Subject:   Re: Update on SE7500 P4 SMP..
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021218104118.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E000CA4.000053.13766@ns.interchange.ca>

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On 18-Dec-2002 Michael Richards wrote:
>> Has this bug been solved yet?  I never saw a post with a patch or
>> anything?
>> 
>> Assuming not...  Is this something that Intel should fix, and/or
>> will there be a patch for FreeBSD one of these days?
> 
> I no longer have a machine to test with as ours went into production 
> as a 1 CPU machine. If someone is willing to donate access to a 
> machine then I can spend some more time with it in the new year. John 
> did a lot of fooling around with it but wasn't able to come up with a 
> solution. He's moved on to more important things.

Well, I'm just real busy with Real Job(tm) right now.  I've heard that
NetBSD boots SMP fine on these buggers, so that's yet another codebase
to compare our code against to see what differences there are. :(
At the moment I don't have a lot of cycles to spend on this but I do
want to get back to it, most likely after New Years.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/

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