Dual core CPUs support
German Tischler
tanis at gaspode.franken.de
Wed Dec 21 12:23:37 PST 2005
Hi,
Tomas Randa wrote:
> Hello all friends of FreeBSD unix,
>
> I´d like to ask here, what is the actual situation with dual core CPUs -
> Athlon 64 X2 etc. and their functionality with FreeBSD 5.X / 6.X / 7.0
> current.
> Few days ago, I bought X2 processor, but unexpectedly FreeBSD found only
> one CPU.
> I started to search google, but no exact informations is available.
> So I am trying this way, is anybody here who could say me status of Dual
> Core CPUs in FreeBSD and when (IF) they would be supported?
> I tried 5.4/i386 with options SMP, 6.0/i386 with the same config, in
> both cases system found only one CPU, but on 5.4 system wrote HTT 2
> logical units.
my dmesg output contains
----
FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #4: Sun Nov 20 19:54:13 CET 2005
...
ACPI APIC Table: <Nvidia AWRDACPI>
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (2211.34-MHz
K8-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x20fb1 Stepping = 1
Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
Features2=0x1<SSE3>
AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,<b25>,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB)
avail memory = 1026330624 (978 MB)
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1
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so it looks like FreeBSD 6 stable (and above) supports them.
Btw: why are you trying to use FreeBSD i386 for an AMD64 cpu ?
Best regards
German Tischler
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