Found a problem with new source code

[John Baldwin]

On 11-Nov-2003 Jason wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>>On 11-Nov-2003 Jason wrote:
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>>>I just wanted to let someone know that my buildworld fails at
>>>/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c at line 362.  I get an undefined
>>>error for RB_BOOTINFO, by adding #define RB_BOOTINFO 0x1f it worked.
>>>Also it failed at sendmail.fc or something, I don't use send mail so I
>>>just did not build it.  It looks like someone already reported the
>>>device apic problem.  I just tryed option smp and device apic on my
>>>single proc athlon, panic on boot unless I chose no apic or is it no
>>>acpi(?) at boot.
>>>    
>>>
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>>No ACPI is what you can choose at boot.  Can you post the panic message?
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>>>By the way, why adding the smp options do any good for my machine?  I
>>>mostly care about speed, but it seems it might just make the os unstable
>>>for me.
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>>You can always compile a custom kernel without SMP if you wish.  device
>>apic can be helpful because PCI devices do not have to share interrupts.
>>Enabling SMP in GENERIC means that SMP machines now work out of the box.
>>It also means that a sysadmin can use one kernel across both UP and SMP
>>machines in a hetergeneous environment which can ease system
>>administration in some cases.
>>
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> I like the idea of not sharing irqs.  Can I have apic without smp on?

Yes.

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