From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 2 20:09:27 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8EB3C4D7 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 20:09:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f173.google.com (mail-ob0-f173.google.com [209.85.214.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56D9D1388 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 20:09:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f173.google.com with SMTP id gq1so6035314obb.18 for ; Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:09:26 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=yFzOj1bE24wpCEv8u+Fql57L1EFZqK6CRH3y7ji6SH8=; b=hc3hEyjK7DHJTcXxaTQh6TZOt6nYDUrdY0Uzuc6PYomAWNhblVdu1SffHn8Zcah1EV JCQS7VpE9X5+vX34ln/PwJOX1uZaVGxSpJ2wP2FM8vMEuei3SM3DE59s4T35piPd40xl z/PdHMk9SQ861K2f+V6rzH4no8S6Oraaq99HJEMH3n9mSZ0kUtisEqCMMscrMxzd0SbR m4PR/bvYirUUH5MHH7tS5c2bIRGBkk0Nr91oPETHBj7jnKMwDq0uQrzIytmP6hVzPaUs Eqd9i8GiZKQNP5gqC2k5IlYQLQNvAAwxJRt7/BA0Qg0R0X+lTIDDKZAZuNFXcLv+Mb6b 9G8g== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQngjrTJ+tLiSnQgFb7AkDGUg8DgUPkf/zj0te4c7Od7BVt7Yy1Vs76/3c8L3uFYAw9nlPlz MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.128.138 with SMTP id no10mr24239757obb.32.1393790966186; Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:09:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.104.169 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 12:09:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1393789855.1149.246.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <1393789855.1149.246.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 13:09:26 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: imx6 SMP enabled by default From: Tom Everett To: Ian Lepore Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: freebsd-arm X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 20:09:27 -0000 I enabled the SMP flag in revision 262666 and voila, I have 4 cores! The boot log is here http://files.khubla.com/freebsd-wandboard/FreeBSD-armv6-11.0-IMX6-r262666.txt and the build is here http://files.khubla.com/freebsd-wandboard/FreeBSD-armv6-11.0-IMX6-r262666.img.gz On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: > As of r262695 option SMP is turned on in the IMX6 kernel config. I also > added a new tunable so that if you have trouble that might be related to > SMP you can "set hw.ncpu=1" at the ubldr prompt or in /boot/loader.rc > and it will boot with a single core (you can set any number from 1 to > the number cores the chip has). > > Also, FYI, you can put "set autoboot_delay=2" in /boot/loader.rc (or any > number you're happy with). You can hit a key at any point while it's > loading the kernel and it will give you the interactive prompt before > booting, so a short delay works fine. > > -- Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding - Douglas MacArthur