Re: HEADS UP: amd64 users! SMP code drop committed.

2003-11-17 Thread Peter Wemm
Peter Wemm wrote: > You may also try 'set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1' in your loader. Be sure to > leave out the mptable options as well, and include the atpic device. The good news is that this solves my problems on the gigabyte board. I expect it'll work for the nvidia as well. But you will need

Re: HEADS UP: amd64 users! SMP code drop committed.

2003-11-17 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:51:53AM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > sledge.freebsd.org is now running in SMP, as is the loaner 4-way Opteron > that I have for testing. Now that you've got all 4 CPU's spinning up, producing maxium BTU's, aren't you glad I brought you that new useful space header for wint

HEADS UP: amd64 users! SMP code drop committed.

2003-11-17 Thread Peter Wemm
The subject should be pretty self explanatory. However, this commit trips some of the landmines in the nVidia nForce3 Pro-150 chipset and/or reference bios. Boards known to be broken by the commit: ASUS SK8N: two problems.. 1) requires 'device atpic' and that you run in 'mixed mode', even thou