freebsd 5.4 & proliant dl360 g3 (SMP) second cpu not detected

[Didier Wiroth]

Hi,
Thank you for helping.
Changing to linux did it!
now the additional cpu shows up
archive# sysctl hw.ncpu
hw.ncpu: 4

archive# dmesg | grep -i cpu
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2799.22-MHz 686-class CPU)
 Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  6
 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  7
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu2: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu3: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!




-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Clements [mailto:sclements at linkline.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 22:42
To: John Baldwin
Cc: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org; Peter Jeremy; Didier Wiroth
Subject: Re: freebsd 5.4 & proliant dl360 g3 (SMP) second cpu not
detected

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 23 September 2005 03:35 pm, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> On Fri, 2005-Sep-23 16:40:52 +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote:
>>> I've installed freebsd5.4 on a compaq proliant dl360 g3 (dual cpu 
>>> 2.8mhz).
>>>
>>> I have recompiled a SMP kernel. But after the reboot with the new 
>>> kernel the second cpu is not detected by freebsd:
>> The other item that would be of use would be the top of a verbose 
>> dmesg (down to the point where it's reporting the number of CPUs.
> 
> Note that the default kernel on FreeBSD 5.4 doesn't include SMP 
> support, so you will need to build a custom kernel (the SMP config is 
> a good one to start with as its the default kernel with SMP added) to
enable SMP.

Also, don't forget to run the SmartStart and select 'Linux' as your OS!
   -Sam