From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Mar 22 17:36:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6438437B71E for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:36:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2N1aIG93081; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:36:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000a01c0b338$4bc3d680$aa240018@cx443070b> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:36:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Jeremiah Gowdy Subject: Re: More IBM Netfinity 3500 SMP problem Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org, Tom Duffey Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 23-Mar-01 Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Duffey" > To: > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 5:03 PM > Subject: More IBM Netfinity 3500 SMP problem > > >> The output of mptable shows that this system has three busses, but FreeBSD >> defaults to 4. So, I attempted to recompile a kernel using more specific >> SMP options, namely: >> >> options SMP >> options APIC_IOB >> options NBUS=3 >> >> But 'config' complains: >> >> smp:61: unknown option "NBUS". >> >> Are the optional SMP paramaters no longer available? Does it >> matter? Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help make >> FreeBSD's SMP support work with this hardware. > > You shouldn't need those options. I use the 3500 with Dual PIII 500s, and > it works fine, just options SMP Err, and APIC_IO I hope. The kernel now examines the MP table and dynamically figures out how many busses, cpus, etc. to deal with on the fly, so it should work fine without needing NBUS tweaked. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "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