Micah Silverman wrote:
>
> Where can I get a list of the working intel boards for smp?
>
> I have an IBM netfinity 7000 and when I boot smp enabled linux it is
> hanging during some kind of apic calibration:
>
> calibrating APIC timer ...
> ..... CPU clock speed is 198.9351 MHz
> ..... system bus clock speed is 66.3113 MHz
>
> I have tried the noapic and the pirq= boot parameters
>
Odd. Just for fun I booted 2.2.12 smp on a 7000/M10 at work (quad xeons
@500 - pity it is destined to run NT) and it worked fine, except it
whinged about finding two IO-APICs and went back to non-apic mode. Oh
and since I hadn't compiled it for >1G memory it only used 960M or some
such. Gave me just a shade under 2K bogo mips too :-) I think you must
have something odd going on on your machine if it thinks you only have a
200MHz processor on a 66MHz bus as well.
Completely off topic, why a 7000 and not a 5500? Do you really need all
those PCI slots? (the 7000 has a seriously large number of PCI slots,
some 64bit, and only 4 hotswap hard drive bays, where as a 5500/M20 has
the same CPUs and as the 7000/M10, 6 disk bays, less pci slots and is
physically smaller unless you get the extra rack for the other 10 hard
drive bays. I would also guess it costs a bit less).
Cheers,
David
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