From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 18 07:05:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90F716A426 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:05:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from linda-2.paradise.net.nz (bm-2a.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8CF43D4C for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:05:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from smtp-3.paradise.net.nz (tclsnelbe2-src-nat-1 [203.96.152.177]) by linda-2.paradise.net.nz (Paradise.net.nz) with ESMTP id <0IQ500DAN2CGNT@linda-2.paradise.net.nz> for freebsd-smp@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:05:04 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (218-101-29-171.dsl.clear.net.nz [218.101.29.171]) by smtp-3.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7508C08795 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:05:03 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:05:00 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood In-reply-to: <437CE8FF.7000509@paradise.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Message-id: <437D7D1C.1090008@paradise.net.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20051106) References: <437ADCED.2030906@paradise.net.nz> <20051117021657.vgmrdp8ys0ogwg40@webmail.1command.com> <437CE8FF.7000509@paradise.net.nz> Subject: Re: SMP kernel but no SMP detected on Tyan S2515 X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:05:15 -0000 Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Network Operations Center wrote: > >> Hello, >> I'm burried in work at the momment - part of which is getting caught >> up on >> mail. But I couldn't help but notice your eMail. As I am also running >> Tyan >> S2515's *and* S2518's happily on (SMP)freeBSD. I thought I'd sneek a >> peek at >> your eMail. I haven't got the time at this momment. But I will share >> my KERNCONF >> and anything else that comes to mind with you tommorrow (technically, >> a little >> later today). Till then, best wishes to ya. >> >> > > Thanks, > > Yeah, its got me puzzled - am running 6.0-RELEASE SMP happily on a > S2510... I am suspicious of the cpus themselves (see prev mail in > thread). I have a pair of properly matched 800's that I will swap in > later today and see if they change anything. > > Its not the cpus - the 800s exhibit the same behavior (no mptable). However swapping out the BIOS from a another (faulty) board *did* fix the problem - the original BIOS was a bit of a strange one - had settings for booting off USB harddrives... (hmm - disabled APICs to make USB work maybe...). Anyway, thanks for your help! Mark