Subject: Re: Will 2.0 support Intel MP Spec. 1.4 machines?
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: Martin S. Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/08/2004 17:12:47
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 03:45:16PM +0200, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 03:31:19PM +0200, Felix Deichmann wrote:
> > Will SMP support for older (Pentium) machines following Intel's MP Spec. 
> > 1.4 make it into NetBSD 2.0? Interrupt configurations seem to be missing.
> 
> The only thing that's not supported is BIOSes that have the ancient
> "standard configurations". I've not seen a machine like that myself,
> and saw only one report of such a machine on a NetBSD list ever..
> So yours may just work with 2.0

Mine seems to have issues (see 'SMP "hiccups" anyone' message on current-users..)

mainbus0: Intel MP Specification (Version 1.4) (HP       MARSHAL     )

(this is a hp visualize-x)

Regards,

-Martin