Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:08:13 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: smp@csn.net (Steve Passe) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mpfps Base Table HOSED! Message-ID: <199802241908.UAA00375@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199802241901.MAA00331@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> from Steve Passe at "Feb 24, 98 12:01:20 pm"
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In reply to Steve Passe who wrote:
> Hi,
> >
> > I've just updated the BIOS on my TYAN 1662D board to 4.0E with
> > NCR SCSI extensions, and this is what I'm told:
> >
> > PANIC: mpfps Base Table HOSED!
> >
> > This is because there is some new entries in the tabel with type # 176
> > and the system doesn't understand those (mp_machdep.c).
> > I've temporarily disabled the panic for those values and the system
> > runs without problems...
> > Any ideas of what those values mean ??
> > Should we let them pass without panic'ing ??
>
> I just searched the Intel site, nothing newer than MPspec 1.4 there.
> Page 4-6 of the 1-4 spec lists the legal types, and says "All other type
> codes are reserved". So if we want to be correct this should probably
> be handled as a "rogue hardware" situation till we have reason to believe
> otherwise.
Well, I've put in a case for 176 to just ignore that value, the system
is rock stable still, so its not of much importance...
Is there any precedence on how we handle these, by config option ??
Wonder if it is Award or TYAN that decided that this should be changed.
BTW: at bios V3.03 the CPU&APIC was found in the order 1-0-2, now they
are ordered 0-1-2, so they did change some of the SMP stuff...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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