Subject: Re: dual AMD machine crashing at boot due to too many CPUs detected
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/05/2006 06:36:09
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On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:55:27AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> In article <449AF0F5.8090105@flame.org>,
> 	M Graff <explorer@flame.org> writes:
> > I have this older Tyan based motherboard (I think...) with two AMD CPUs
> > on it.  About six months ago it started detecting more than two CPUs on
> > the machine.  This caused a crash at boot when these phantom CPUs were
> > configured.
>=20
> It looks like a broken ACPI BIOS to me. Did you try a kernel with only
> MPBIOS and without your hack? If that helps you could try upgrading
> the BIOS of that motherboard.

No, it was a bug in our code, but I think the commit of Frank's patches
fixed that.  I'll check;  there's a PR for that, too.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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