Subject: re: smparc - success with mixed modules?!
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/18/2003 15:07:35
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, matthew green wrote:
> you're about the Nth person to discover this recently :-)  there appears
> to be nothing inherent that would cause this to fail and netbsd seems to
> work just fine.. 40 vs 75 is the largest difference i've seen so far.

Leet. :)


>    While on the subject: when running with two SM40(?) modules, they were
>    both recognized (cpu0 & cpu1), but the kernel didn't try to boot the
>    secondary cpu for SMP operation. Maybe that'd be worth trying?
>
> you mean that it probed 'cpu0: ... & cpu1: ...' but when it came to saying
> 'cpu0: booting secondary processors: cpu1' it didn't say cpu1?  that, from
> what i read of the code, shouldn't be possible...

Hum, I guess I'll put in the CPUs again and send the dmesg output. :)


 - Hubert

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