Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 08:55:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: mestery@winternet.com (Kyle Mestery) Cc: gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP not working anymore Message-ID: <199806100655.IAA01549@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980609194306.22967A-100000@tundra.winternet.com> from Kyle Mestery at "Jun 9, 98 07:44:35 pm"
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In reply to Kyle Mestery who wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> > I have not been able to get an SMP kernel to boot on a dual PPro, 200MHz,
> > Micronics motherboard. I do not know the exact model of the motherboard but
> > can find out. The last time I was able to get an SMP kernel to boot on this
> > system was around the end of May. It immediately locks up with the following
> > message:
> >
> > panic: mpfps Base Table Hosed!
> >
> I have a dual PPro Micronics motherboard (W6-LI), and it works fine. I am
> running a kernel from June 3rd now, but I have tried a kernel from June 7
> with no problem (including John Dyson's SMP changes). If your mptable is
> hosed, I wonder if something else in your BIOS is hosed maybe.
Well I had that exact probelm with my TYAN S1662D board too, until I
upgraded to TYAN latest BIOS (v5.01). The problem seem to be nonstd
entries in the mp tables. However if you comment out the two
panics in mp_machdep.c the system will run just fine and ignore the
bogus entries...
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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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