From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Dec 18 7:41:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEAA137B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:41:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F2CE43EE5 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:41:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 5960 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2002 15:41:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail16.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 18 Dec 2002 15:41:22 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBIFfHUT015495; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:41:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3E000CA4.000053.13766@ns.interchange.ca> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:41:18 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Michael Richards Subject: Re: Update on SE7500 P4 SMP.. Cc: smp@freebsd.org, jrf4772@ksu.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message