From owner-freebsd-smp Tue May 6 12:21:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA29661 for smp-outgoing; Tue, 6 May 1997 12:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA29651 for ; Tue, 6 May 1997 12:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from givry.inria.fr (givry.inria.fr [128.93.8.18]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA20885; Tue, 6 May 1997 21:21:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from givry.inria.fr (givry.inria.fr [128.93.8.18]) by givry.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21014; Tue, 6 May 1997 21:21:31 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199705061921.VAA21014@givry.inria.fr> From: Francis Dupont To: Steve Passe cc: "John S. Dyson" , smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maptable of SuperMicro P6DNH In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 06 May 1997 10:34:17 MDT. <199705061634.KAA07279@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 21:21:29 +0200 Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In your previous mail you wrote: >FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard > cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011 > io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00170011 >CPU: Pentium Pro (686-class CPU) you appear to only have 1 CPU on this board, is that correct? if so I'm surprised it can run an SMP kernel at all! we have given zip thought to such a thing... => of course I have only one CPU, my purpose is not (yet :-) to debug the SMP kernel. I need only a large number of PCI slots (I have 8 slots)... But the SMP kernel seems to run and mptable gives interesting results! Thanks Francis.Dupont@inria.fr PS: perhaps when SMP support will be available on many OSs I'll buy an extra processor.