From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 12:00:04 2003 Return-Path: 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 A9A4D37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:00:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail8.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01A3343FAF for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:00:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 19082 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2003 19:00:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Jul 2003 19:00:01 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6GIxxGI023510; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:59:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3F14EA9E.616847E1@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:00:15 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Terry Lambert cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org cc: Patrik Veselik Subject: Re: maximum of CPUs X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:00:05 -0000 On 16-Jul-2003 Terry Lambert wrote: >> This is from the current code that is trying to renumber the I/O >> APIC's since they collide with CPUs. I've completely rewritten >> all the mptable code, but I don't support renumbering I/O APICs >> yet. I was really hoping that the BIOS would help us out enough >> to keep the IDs from overlapping. > > I thought it had to, to be MP Spec 1.4 compliant?!? What had to be what to be compliant? > This whole "stuff everything into ACPI and to hell with the > standards" thing that vendors are doing on Intel these days > is really, really annoying. No, it's correct. The mptable is quite limited and ACPI's configuration mechanism is much cleaner. Complaining about ACPI in this matter only serves to display your ignorance of what it is and how it works. Please educate yourself on the real issues first, thanks. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/