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To: Vincent Milum Jr Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4B5BRZ49rRz4Jyd X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of danilogondolfo@gmail.com designates 209.85.222.44 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=danilogondolfo@gmail.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.40 / 15.00]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:209.85.128.0/17]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.64)[-0.637]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-arm@freebsd.org]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[freebsd.org]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.79)[-0.786]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[209.85.222.44:from]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.98)[-0.976]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[danilo@freebsd.org,danilogondolfo@gmail.com]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_POSSIBLE(0.00)[209.85.222.44:from]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:209.85.128.0/17, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[danilo@freebsd.org,danilogondolfo@gmail.com]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.33 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:06:36 -0000 On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:27 PM Vincent Milum Jr wrote: > I'm curious about this, too. I recently got the Pinebook Pro up and > running, and would like to start testing all 6 CPU cores for doing > compilation tasks. > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:19 AM Josh Howard wrote: > > > It looks like it's been a couple of months since there's been any news > > around it. Anything in particular still needed as far as testing or > > debugging that goes? I have a Rockpro64 and a RockPi4e (though I don't > have > > that booting yet.) that I could potentially test on. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The number of CPUs was limited here https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=360321 If you remove the hw.ncpu from your loader.conf you'll be able to use all the 6 cores. Although the commit message mentions a "known issue" with the big.LITTLE architecture, I was able to use all the 6 cores to rebuild the entire system and I didn't face any issue. Maybe manu@ could give us some context about that.