AMD/Intel multicore detection (Was: Re: [PATCH] AMD multicore detection)

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 4 08:54:09 PDT 2005


On Tuesday 04 October 2005 11:05 am, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 04:26 PM 26/09/2005, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> >Okay.  I have a new patch here:
> >
> >http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/multicore-20050926.diff
> >
> >I removed mp_machdep.c patch and added proper multicore
> > identification for both AMD and Intel CPUs.  I hope this does not
> > overlap with your work.  Please review/test.
>
> Hi,
>          Just got an AMD 3800 X2 to test with. Running just a beta5
> kernel from a few days ago does not see the second CPU and nor does
> it with your latest patch

It seems BIOS did not recognize the processor.  Therefore, dual-core 
support is disabled.  Please update the BIOS and let me know.

Thanks,

Jung-uk Kim


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