Proliant on a 6500

[chris scott]

try bsd 5 the smp support is far better in that, in fact it was once of the
major things that was overhauled, it may solve your problem
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Carroll" <fbsd at dannysplace.net>
To: <freebsd-smp at freebsd.org>; <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>;
<freebsd-questions at freeBSD.org>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: Proliant on a 6500


> Sorry to reply to myself, but I wanted to expand this to -stable and add
> some more info...
> See the original post at the bottom of this msg.
>
> I just took the Smart 2/P and put it in slot1 (one of the shared Eisa/PCI
> slots.)
>
> Now the Dmesg output shows the "SMP: AP CPU" lines in a different order...
>
> They were:
> SMP: AP CPU# 3 Launched!
> SMP: AP CPU# 1 Launched!
> SMP: AP CPU# 2 Launched!
>
> now they are:
> SMP: AP CPU# 1 Launched!
> SMP: AP CPU# 2 Launched!
> SMP: AP CPU# 3 Launched!
>
> I don't think this is a SMP problem, but rather a SMP/Smart2 combined
> problem...
>
> Has anyone got FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE working on a Compaq Proliant 6500 with
a
> Smart2/p?
> -D
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Danny Carroll" <fbsd at dannysplace.net>
> To: <freebsd-smp at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 6:29 PM
> Subject: Proliant on a 6500
>
>
> > Hiya all...
> >
> > I have a compaq proliant 6500 with 4 cpu's
> > I am trying to install 4.8 on it (I got it installed but it's SMP that
> does
> > not work).
> >
> > The kernel seems to hang after the SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched.
> > Actually it gets two lines extra (mounting root off the ida controller).
> >
> > Now, scrolllock and caps and everything still work, (I can even sroll
back
> > and read the text) but nothing else happens.
> >
> > I am about to wipe and choose UNIXWare 7 (I chose solaris last time) and
> > we'll see what happens, but I was wondering if you have seen this
problem
> > before.
> >
> > One more thing...  I only had the first two SMP settings in the kernel I
> had
> > none of that NCPU etc stuff,...  Do I need it for 4.8?  If so, how do I
> find
> > out how many interupts to set??
> >
> > Any more tips??
> >
> > Thanks...
> > -D
> >
>
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