Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:11:02 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Joy Ganguly <joy@niksun.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freeBSD.org> Subject: Re: SMP and APIC??? Message-ID: <200005221911.MAA05529@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 May 2000 14:56:02 EDT." <392982C1.674000DD@falcon.niksun.com>
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This sounds like a known problem with 3.4 and the timer interrupt routing
code. You will need to update to 4.0 to work around it.
> i have compiled freeBSD 3.4 SMP. but when i try to boot it the kernel
> shows "Testing APIC 8254" and then it hangs. earlier i had run mptable
> and it showed:I/O APICs:
> ----------------------
> {Lots of stuff}....
>
> APIC ID Version State Address
> 2 0x20 usable 0xfec00000
> 3 0x20 usable 0xfd8df000
>
>
> and then......
>
> options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor
> Kernel
> options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
>
> # Optional (built-in defaults will work in most cases):
> #options NCPU=2 # number of CPUs
> #options NBUS=6 # number of busses
> #options NAPIC=2 # number of IO APICs
> #options NINTR=24 # number of INTs
>
> i am totally clueless. whats going on???
>
> thanx in advance
>
> joy
>
>
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