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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:14:58 -0600
From:      "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com>
To:        <freebsd-smp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: 4.7 on 2 Xeons SMP?
Message-ID:  <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10476BD8C@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>

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I'm working on this issue.  We actually do deliver RTC interrupts
through the IOAPIC, but we're not sure why the kernel isn't getting
them.

I will send an update to the list when we get this resolved.  (soon...)

By the way, this is also a problem with 5.0-release.

Thanks,
John
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John Cagle     john.cagle@hp.com
Principal Member Technical Staff
   Industry Standard Servers
    Hewlett-Packard Company

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Baldwin [mailto:jhb@FreeBSD.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:48 AM
> To: Guy Helmer
> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: 4.7 on 2 Xeons SMP?
> 
> 
> 
> On 22-Jan-2003 Guy Helmer wrote:
> > I just received a HP Proliant DL380 G3 with dual 2.8GHz Xeons to 
> > evaluate, but when I try to bring up an SMP kernel (GENERIC 
> + SMP and 
> > APIC options and bge Ethernet driver) from 4.7-stable 
> cvsupped January 
> > 3, it locks solid at the point where it prints "APIC_IO: 
> Testing 8254 
> > interrupt delivery".  I have searched the 'net for help but 
> I haven't 
> > found anything that seems to help.  I have tried changing 
> the BIOS's 
> > operating system support to Linux and SCO, but neither helped.  A 
> > plain GENERIC kernel boots fine on the box.
> > 
> > FWIW, a SuperMicro P4DPE-G2 with dual 2.8GHz Xeons booted 
> the same SMP 
> > kernel just fine.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> Some of the newer HPaq boxes do not deliver interrupts for 
> the real time clock via the I/O APIC.  There currently is not 
> a work around for this, but at least one person at HP is 
> looking into the issue and peter@ has been working on it as well.
> 
> -- 
> 
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use > the Power to 
> Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/

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