Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:22:56 -0500 From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: erich@uruk.org Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-SMP and Pentium Pro (was -> Re: QuadPro Motherboard) Message-ID: <3249DAF0.695678E2@hiwaay.net> References: <199609260120.SAA17253@uruk.org>
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erich@uruk.org wrote: > > Wow, I didn't think I'd cause this kind of widespread panic ;-) > > Seriously, though... this isn't a huge show-stopper by any means. There > are 2 things necessary to fix working with most P6 systems: > > -- Changing the local APIC to a variable (right now it is hard-coded), > or simply changing the page address it is mapped at to take this > into account. > > -- For many dual-P6 motherboards, support booting off of a CPU local APIC > which is != 0. Many P6 motherboards have the boot CPU as #1, and > the secondary CPU as #0. This might be harder to fix. > > BTW, I'll have a finished "generic" startup sequence available in a few > days on my web site. It is similar to but somewhat more generic than the > Linux-SMP CPU startup code. > > -- > Erich Stefan Boleyn \_ E-mail (preferred): <erich@uruk.org> > Mad Genius wanna-be, CyberMuffin \__ (finger me for other stats) > Web: http://www.uruk.org/~erich/ Motto: "I'll live forever or die trying" Are you planning on providing the fixes to the other problems that you mentioned as well? ;) Steve
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