Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 12:30:36 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: mwhite+@CMU.EDU (Matthew Jason White) Cc: rlb@mindspring.com, phk@critter.tfs.com, freebsd-smp@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you get the SMP code Message-ID: <199605311930.MAA18471@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <slfbOCu00YUrIpjFUq@andrew.cmu.edu> from "Matthew Jason White" at May 31, 96 00:33:18 am
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> > Tell us how it works out :-) > > Hmmm...didn't boot. > > I got a 'FreeBSD/SMP' message and the next line stating bootcpu=0xff > (sorry, that's not exact, I forgot to write it down. If it's important, > I still have the kernel around and can check). > > This is an AMI Titan-II motherboard with two 90MHz cpus and 512k cache. > This motherboard is supposed to be Intel SMP v1.1 compliant. Here is > the relevant portion of dmesg from a working kernel: > > ... > Calibrating clock(s) relative to mc146818A clock ... i586 clock: > 90000469 Hz, i8254 clock: 1193156 Hz > CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION not specified - using default frequency > CLK_USE_I586_CALIBRATION not specified - using old calibration method > i586 clock: 0 Hz > CPU: Pentium (89.09-MHz 586-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping=5 > Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8> > real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) > avail memory = 14610432 (14268K bytes) > eisa0: <AMI7111 (System Board)> > Probing for devices on the EISA bus > Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: > chip0 <Intel 82434NX (Neptune) PCI cache memory controller> rev 17 on pci0:0 > chip1 <Intel 82375EB PCI-EISA bridge> rev 4 on pci0:2:0 > > > Hope that helps! Lemme know if there's something that anyone wants me to try. How is your APIC set up in CMOS? There are three methods of startup documented in the v1.1 spec, all of which are technically compliant. The current code supports only one of them, where it goes trouncing around looking for the signature data. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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