From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 18 19: 2:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from argus.tfs.net (host1-126.birch.net [216.212.1.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656D314D1E for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:02:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbryant@argus.tfs.net) Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by argus.tfs.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) id UAA70763; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:25:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199906190125.UAA70763@argus.tfs.net> Subject: Re: SMP and Celerons... In-Reply-To: from Pat Lynch at "Jun 18, 99 08:11:08 pm" To: lynch@bsdunix.net (Pat Lynch) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:25:28 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: jbryant@unix.tfs.net X-Windows: R00LZ!@# MS-Winbl0wz DR00LZ!@# X-files: The truth is that the X-Files is fiction X-Republican: The best kind!!! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #31: Thu Apr 8 10:40:17 CDT 1999 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply: > Heya, sorry I tried this one on -stable and -questions and noone seems to > know, and they actually go so far as to ask me how I got two celerons in a > motherboard... > > so I ask here. > > I have two PPGA(Socket 370) Celeron 333A's that are on MSI6905 Dual Socket > 1 adaptors... > > a Tyan Thunder 2 motherboard (onboard scsi, sound, etc.) there is a problem with the freebsd sound support for this board, but i am told it is being worked on [?]. > I boot an SMP kernel, it gets right past autoboot... then panics > > the message was that it "could not find local apic"... > > its kinda strange because essentially with these adaptors, the celerons > should be 1) SMP capable, and 2) the same as a PII, except no L2 cache > > I know others that ran FreeBSD SMP with celerons... anyone know if theres > some kind of patch I need or modification I have to make to get either > -CURRENT or -STABLE working on this machine? Right now it is running a UP > kernel instead of the SMP one and runs fine. strangeness. i run the same board with dual pII-333's, Tyan Thunder2, S1696DLUA. when i boot, i show two cpus and an apic. i have two theories: 1). these boards have a problem with celery. 2). you have a flaky mb. granted, i haven't heard about too many of them being flaky, but that they have an above average reliability level. but then, there is always someone that get s flake sooner or later. My experience [of about 12 days so far] is that this is a quality midrange system, as configured here, and is maybe even a tad more reliable than my workhorse p133 [which has had three spontaneous reboots in the same period, but running an older -current by a few weeks]. Unless you have some weird boards, -current currently works fine on my system [although -current is subject to overnight changes that produce catastrophic failures every now and then, always check which way the wind is blowing in the -current mailing list before doing a make installworld]. Can you borrow a couple of pII's? It would be interesting to see if the Thunder2's have a problem sith celery. Copyright (c) 1992-1999 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #41: Tue Jun 15 10:59:11 CDT 1999 jbryant@wahoo:/usr/src/sys/compile/WAHOO Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1192991 Hz CPU: Pentium II/Xeon/Celeron (686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x650 Stepping=0 Features=0x183fbff real memory = 268435456 (262144K bytes) avail memory = 257720320 (251680K bytes) Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec00000 . . . APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IO APIC int pin 2 APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 on pin 0 . . . changing root device to da0s1a [and normal boot] jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inet: jbryant@tfs.net AX.25: kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam grid: EM28pw voice: KC5VDJ - 6 & 2 Meters AM/FM/SSB, 70cm FM. http://www.tfs.net/~jbryant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HF/6M/2M: IC-706-MkII, 2M: HTX-212, 2M: HTX-202, 70cm: HTX-404, Packet: KPC-3+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message