Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:42:17 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Patch to tweak FreeBSD CPU IDs in the SMP support Message-ID: <200411051042.17153.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200411031349.01668.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200411031349.01668.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wednesday 03 November 2004 01:49 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > I would appreciate it if folks with SMP machines could please test the > patch below. It should ensure among other things that the boot processor > will now always have a FreeBSD cpu ID of 0 and that the FreeBSD cpu IDs > will now be allocate independent of the PAL IDs from the HWPRB. I'm > especially interested in reports from machines where the PAL IDs don't > match the CPU IDs. (My one SMP alpha box always seems to boot from CPU 0 > and so the IDs match up so I can't tell if I've accidentally gotten an id > variable backwards somewhere.) This patch should apply directly to 5.x as well as HEAD if that will make it easier for folks to test btw. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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