From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 19 9:57: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from medulla.hippocampus.net (medulla.hippocampus.net [204.138.241.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5B314D97 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 09:56:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@netstor.com) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by medulla.hippocampus.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA16701; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:03:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:03:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas X-Sender: marc@medulla.hippocampus.net To: Pat Lynch Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP and Celerons... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmmm...I always thought there was something "broke" inside Celerons to prevent SMP...maybe I'm wrong? Sure would be neat if you could run them SMP... -marc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Pat Lynch wrote: > 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.) > > 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. > > -Pat > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net > lynch@bsdunix.net > Systems Administrator Rush Networking > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message