I was wondering if anybody would care for a beastie.4th that included a boot option which turns off SMP. I personally believe it could make sense where a SMP bug or a faulty MP motherboard made a boot impossible. It would be easier than having to open up the box and remove a CPU.
I personally use the following patch to switch conveniently SMP-mode on and off when I need to try DRI/DRM, which doesn't work with SMP. -- walter pelissero http://www.pelissero.de *** /boot/beastie.4th.orig Tue Aug 23 17:44:44 2005 --- /boot/beastie.4th Tue Aug 23 18:06:36 2005 *************** *** 44,49 **** --- 44,50 ---- variable bootsafekey variable bootverbosekey variable bootsinglekey + variable bootnosmpkey variable escapekey variable rebootkey *************** *** 161,166 **** --- 162,168 ---- then printmenuitem ." Boot FreeBSD in Safe Mode" bootsafekey ! printmenuitem ." Boot FreeBSD in single user mode" bootsinglekey ! + printmenuitem ." Boot FreeBSD in non-SMP mode" bootnosmpkey ! printmenuitem ." Boot FreeBSD with verbose logging" bootverbosekey ! printmenuitem ." Escape to loader prompt" escapekey ! s" arch-i386" environment? if *************** *** 258,263 **** --- 260,269 ---- then dup bootsinglekey @ = if s" YES" s" boot_single" setenv + 0 boot + then + dup bootnosmpkey @ = if + s" 1" s" kern.smp.disabled" setenv 0 boot then dup escapekey @ = if _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
