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Date:      Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:54:06 +0000
From:      Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com>
To:        Anto Prijosoesilo <antop64@yahoo.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Can't see second CPU on IBM eServer x346 (FBSD5.4 and 6.0 amd64)
Message-ID:  <1138730046.8083.10.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20060131075948.47487.qmail@web50412.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20060131075948.47487.qmail@web50412.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 07:59, Anto Prijosoesilo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a problem installing FreeBSD/amd64 SMP on a
> couple of IBM x346 servers. Both have dual XEON 3.0GHz
> EM64T processors but OS seems to only enable one of
> them.
> 
> ACPI has to be disabled on both machines for them to
> boot, otherwise they will hang after probing the
> keyboard.
> 
> I'm using the SMP kernel config unedited.
> 
> Mptable on both machines show that there are 2 CPUs:
> 
> --
> Processors:     APIC ID Version State           Family
>  Model   Step    Flags
>                  0       0x14    BSP, usable     15   
>   4       1       0x0301
>                  6       0x14    AP, usable      15   
>   4       1       0x0301
> --
> 
> Sysctl hw.ncpu returns 1 on both systems.
> 
> The one on FreeBSD 5.4 has 6GB or memory and the one
> on FreeBSD 6.0 has 3GB of memory. I can run tests on
> the 3GB system and will probably try FreeBSD/i386 on
> it to see if it can see both CPUs.
> 
> Has anyone successfully ran FreeBSD/amd64 SMP on these
> machines?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any info anyone can provide.
> 
> Anto.

Silly question. Isn't the XEON Intel i386 architecture which runs
Freebsd i386 whereas the FreeBSD amd64 is for AMD 64 bit devices.?

In which case you should use the Freebsd i386 SMP kernel.

Rob  




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