Compaq DL 360 SMP problem (was: i386/89545: Compaq DL 360 ACPI boot problem)

[Geoff Buckingham]

I seem to recall later versions of the DL360 BIOS allow you to make
limited changes without the smartstart EISA tools partition or CD.

You can use dmidecode from ports to read a lot of useful information,
including BIOS version from a running machine. (Also serial numbers,
DIMM configuration, helpful for co-located machines)

The FreeBSD Proliant page also has an online flash upgrade for the DL360
R1. I would suggest extreme caution in using this on a production
machine, especially a remote one.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Anders Nordby
Sent: 22 October 2006 21:26
To: Stefan Hauser
Cc: freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Compaq DL 360 SMP problem (was: i386/89545: Compaq DL 360
ACPI boot problem)

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:13:29PM +0200, Stefan Hauser wrote:
>>> Yes, apic is enabled in the kernel that I run. ACPI is loaded as a 
>>> kernel module. If I disable ACPI, FreeBSD also finds only one
processor.
> do you have apic enabled in the bios ? (btw, dont mix up apci and 
> acpi) if yes, you should see APIC in the feature line of the cpu.
> if it's not enabled, see 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMP-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.1

This is an older server. I have to boot it from a SmartStart CD to
access the system configuration in it, and I couldn't enable the
advanced mode to see whether or not APIC is enabled. But, after
switching to another OS profile (Linux) there it seems that issue got
fixed. After I did the change, I can see that the CPU has the feature
APIC:

CPU: Intel Pentium III (797.48-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x683  Stepping = 3
 
Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,
MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>

Before that, it did not:

CPU: Intel Pentium III (797.48-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x683  Stepping = 3
Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,C
MOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>

PS: Sorry it took some time to check up on this. The server is in a
co-location facility, and I don't go there often.

PS2: On other Compaq/HP servers, I've had success setting APIC mode to
"full table mapped". I just couldn't find that on this one, the system
configuration does not give me any advanced options or mode.

Cheers,

--
Anders.
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