Mingo,
for two weeks, I'm trying hard to get my P54NP4 (same as mentioned in
Alan Cox' smp.tex) board working with recent kernels in SMP mode. While
everything works fine with CONFIG_SMP *not* set, enabling this option
crashes the whole system after first reboot. Most annoying, the system is
so seriously damaged that it must be reinstalled (15 passes up to now).
Have tried 2.2.10 and 2.2.14, finally, only 2.0.38 proved to be relatively
stable when compiled for SMP.
Should point out that P54NP4 is not that new (e.g. only shared L2 cache),
however, it should be fully SMP Spec v1.1 compliant. Warp and NT351 run
fine with SMP kernels (FreeBSD 3.2 still under testing).
A boot log is attached for reference.
Torsten
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