From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 5 18:44:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C56416A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:44:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3718E43D2D for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:44:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 7234 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2004 18:44:55 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Nov 2004 18:44:54 -0000 Received: from [10.50.41.235] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iA5Iim5f096153 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:44:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:42:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200411031349.01668.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200411031349.01668.jhb@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411051042.17153.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx Subject: Re: Patch to tweak FreeBSD CPU IDs in the SMP support X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 18:44:55 -0000 On Wednesday 03 November 2004 01:49 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > I would appreciate it if folks with SMP machines could please test the > patch below. It should ensure among other things that the boot processor > will now always have a FreeBSD cpu ID of 0 and that the FreeBSD cpu IDs > will now be allocate independent of the PAL IDs from the HWPRB. I'm > especially interested in reports from machines where the PAL IDs don't > match the CPU IDs. (My one SMP alpha box always seems to boot from CPU 0 > and so the IDs match up so I can't tell if I've accidentally gotten an id > variable backwards somewhere.) This patch should apply directly to 5.x as well as HEAD if that will make it easier for folks to test btw. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org