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To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Subject: Re: TYAN Thunder 2500/MP Table Error
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> Dear Sirs.
> I run successfully a TYAN Thunder 2500 mainboard with FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE, BIOS Beta
> 1.03/896 for the LSI 53C896 based SCSI controler. When booting, I obtain a lot of
> SMP messages from the kernel, but at one stage, I receive this error:
>
> APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
> APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2
> APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0
>
> SMP works fine, but it seems that there is something wron with the MP table.
> Is this a serious error message or is it simply a warning? What kind of performance penalty does
> it results in? And: hopefully, is there a chance to get rid of it with a new
> BIOS update in the future?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gruss O. Hartmann
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