RE: Dell pe1550 (smp) on RELENG_5 ?
-Original Message- From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 2:46 AM To: Robin P. Blanchard Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dell pe1550 (smp) on RELENG_5 ? On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: Anyone succesfully accomplished this ? Seems I have to disable apic to get the box to sucessfully boot (otherwise will hang), thereby disabling smp. I have -CURRENT running on a PE1750 without issues. I have a PE1650 that I'm waiting on rails for and a PE1550 I can temporarily ursurp. Does it also hang under 5.3-R? I had some odd problems with a PE2450 that turned out to be a screwed up fxp pci card. Taking the card out got the machine booting again. Do you have any cards in this system? It seems that disabling NO_MIXED_MODE allows the 1550s to succesfully operate in smp mode. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Dell pe1550 (smp) on RELENG_5 ?
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: It seems that disabling NO_MIXED_MODE allows the 1550s to succesfully operate in smp mode. Yes, a machine that old I would not expect to work with this option. Since it isn't the default I'll chock this up to PEBKAC :) -- Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell pe1550 (smp) on RELENG_5 ?
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: Anyone succesfully accomplished this ? Seems I have to disable apic to get the box to sucessfully boot (otherwise will hang), thereby disabling smp. I have -CURRENT running on a PE1750 without issues. I have a PE1650 that I'm waiting on rails for and a PE1550 I can temporarily ursurp. Does it also hang under 5.3-R? I had some odd problems with a PE2450 that turned out to be a screwed up fxp pci card. Taking the card out got the machine booting again. Do you have any cards in this system? # cat /boot/loader.conf |fgrep -v # beastie_disable=YES boot_verbose=YES ahc_pci_load=YES amr_load=YES if_fxp_load=YES kern.cam.scsi_delay=2000 kern.maxusers=0 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 # sysctl -a |fgrep smp kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 kern.smp.forward_roundrobin_enabled: 1 kern.smp.forward_signal_enabled: 1 kern.smp.cpus: 1 kern.smp.disabled: 0 kern.smp.active: 0 kern.smp.maxcpus: 16 debug.psmpkterrthresh: 2 mptable and dmesg here: http://people.gactr.uga.edu/robin/1550/mptable.txt --- Robin P. Blanchard Systems Integration Specialist Georgia Center for Continuing Education fon: 706.542.2404 fax: 706.542.6546 --- ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell pe1550 (smp) on RELENG_5 ?
Anyone succesfully accomplished this ? Seems I have to disable apic to get the box to sucessfully boot (otherwise will hang), thereby disabling smp. # cat /boot/loader.conf |fgrep -v # beastie_disable=YES boot_verbose=YES ahc_pci_load=YES amr_load=YES if_fxp_load=YES kern.cam.scsi_delay=2000 kern.maxusers=0 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 # sysctl -a |fgrep smp kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 kern.smp.forward_roundrobin_enabled: 1 kern.smp.forward_signal_enabled: 1 kern.smp.cpus: 1 kern.smp.disabled: 0 kern.smp.active: 0 kern.smp.maxcpus: 16 debug.psmpkterrthresh: 2 mptable and dmesg here: http://people.gactr.uga.edu/robin/1550/mptable.txt --- Robin P. Blanchard Systems Integration Specialist Georgia Center for Continuing Education fon: 706.542.2404 fax: 706.542.6546 --- ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
