From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 22 12: 9:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48A2F37B568 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 12:09:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA05529; Mon, 22 May 2000 12:11:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005221911.MAA05529@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Joy Ganguly Cc: freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: SMP and APIC??? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 May 2000 14:56:02 EDT." <392982C1.674000DD@falcon.niksun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:11:02 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message