Subject: Re: current smp support on pentium
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-smp
Date: 10/19/2001 19:54:05
On Oct 20,  1:48am, fvdl@wasabisystems.com (Frank van der Linden) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: current smp support on pentium

Thanks for the information. The other problem is that the 3com cards
don't autonegotiate media. But it is a speedy box :-)

christos

| > pci_intr_map: no MP mapping found
| 
| You either should get a BIOS upgrade or enable the "PCI pins in MP table"
| (or somesuch) setting in the setup, to get rid of that one. I sent
| a bugreport about that one when I had the eval version of this board,
| and they fixed it afterwards.
| 
| > ioapic0: WARNING: sharing interrupt between different IPLs (currently broken)
| > ioapic0: pin 11, ipls 70..80
| 
| ..and that the biggest reason the i386 SMP code has not been
| integrated yet, this can cause serious trouble. But you may be lucky
| and not see any problems at all, for example, in this case it's ohci0
| and ex0 sharing an irq, and you're probably not using the former,
| so you won't have problems.
| 
| - Frank
| 
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| Frank van der Linden                           fvdl@wasabisystems.com
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-- End of excerpt from Frank van der Linden