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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:37:34 -0700
From:      "Stephen Karrington" <sk@dreamtime.net>
To:        "'Pierre Beyssac'" <beyssac@enst.fr>, "'Terry Lambert'" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        "'John Baldwin'" <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, <smp@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'beemern'" <beemern@ksu.edu>
Subject:   RE: PATCH: start_ap(), and P4 SMP hack to try
Message-ID:  <02b901c264b1$d9f61f90$b69f4344@useriwkuwos7hm>
In-Reply-To: <20020925165523.A58257@bofh.enst.fr>

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Hello,
Add me to the list. I am also having this problem too. 

My specs are:

Intel Motherboard SE7500CW2SCSI.
Xeon Processor BX80532KC2200D. I have two of them.
512 meg modules - 266X72RC25/512I. I have 4 of them.

Sincerely,

Stephen Karrington
Dreamtime.net Inc.
http://www.dreamtime.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierre Beyssac
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 7:55 AM
> To: Terry Lambert
> Cc: John Baldwin; smp@FreeBSD.ORG; beemern
> Subject: Re: PATCH: start_ap(), and P4 SMP hack to try
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:17:22AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > What it does is correct the start_ap routine to take a physical 
> > instead of a logical CPU as an argument.
> 
> FWIW, I've tested a similar patch of mine a few days ago, 
> because I'm having the exact same problem as everyone else in 
> this thread on a bi-Xeon Intel motherboard.
> 
> My patch just changes the start_ap routine to use a physical 
> ID, and start_ap is called in a loop with CPU varying from 8 
> back to 1 until we get one processor started. It doesn't work.
> 
> I even added additional delays in start_ap in case this would 
> just be a timing problem, and it didn't work either.
> 
> I'm not a SMP specialist (actually I was not subscribed to 
> -smp until I found it searching "PHY FreeBSD panic y/n" 
> through Google) so I have no idea what to try next.
> -- 
> Pierre Beyssac						
> pb@enst.fr
> 
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