Intel7501

[Samuel Clements]

>Given, that many folks have had problems with the Intel 7500 chipset, I 
>like to ask if the 7501 is better. We plan to buy some machines with Intel 
>Westville 2 motherboards which have the this chipset.
>Will this work with FreeBSD correctly?

Below is the dmesg from an Intel SE7501WV2 motherboard with a single Xeon 
with SMP & HTT enabled. I'd assume since a single cpu shows as two 
(expected due to HT), the two physical should show as 4. If I run across 
another CPU before this machine goes out, I'll try it out and post again.
   -Sam


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FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Tue Apr 29 11:42:24 GMT 2003
     root at bubba.linkline.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BUBBA
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2392.30-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf27  Stepping = 7
   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
   Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
real memory  = 1073676288 (1048512K bytes)
avail memory = 1039724544 (1015356K bytes)
Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0
IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #1
Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #2
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard
  cpu0 (BSP): apic id:  0, version: 0x00050014, at 0xfee00000
  cpu1 (AP):  apic id:  1, version: 0x00050014, at 0xfee00000
  io0 (APIC): apic id:  8, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec00000
  io1 (APIC): apic id:  9, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec81000
  io2 (APIC): apic id: 10, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec81400
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc052e000.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
Using $PIR table, 19 entries at 0xc00f2f30
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
IOAPIC #0 intpin 16 -> irq 2
IOAPIC #0 intpin 19 -> irq 16
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2541) at 0.1
pcib1: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=2545)> at device 3.0 on pci0
pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci2: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1461) at 28.0
pcib2: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=1460)> at device 29.0 on pci2
IOAPIC #2 intpin 0 -> irq 18
pci4: <PCI bus> on pcib2
iir0: <Intel Integrated RAID Controller> mem 0xfa000000-0xfbffffff irq 18 
at device 8.0 on pci4
pci2: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1461) at 30.0
pcib3: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=1460)> at device 31.0 on pci2
IOAPIC #1 intpin 6 -> irq 19
IOAPIC #1 intpin 7 -> irq 20
pci3: <PCI bus> on pcib3
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.4.10> port 
0x2040-0x207f mem 0xfe8c0000-0xfe8dffff irq 19 at device 7.0 on pci3
em0:  Speed:100 Mbps  Duplex:Half
em1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.4.10> port 
0x2000-0x203f mem 0xfe8e0000-0xfe8fffff irq 20 at device 7.1 on pci3
em1:  Speed:100 Mbps  Duplex:Full
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2546) at 3.1
uhci0: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A> port 0x3020-0x303f 
irq 2 at device 29.0 on pci0
usb0: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-B> port 0x3000-0x301f 
irq 16 at device 29.1 on pci0
usb1: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pcib4: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) Hub to PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib4
pci1: <ATI Mach64-GR graphics accelerator> at 12.0 irq 17
isab0: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=8086 device=2480)> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH3 ATA100 controller> port 
0x3a0-0x3af,0-0x3,0-0x7,0-0x3,0-0x7 irq 0 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2483) at 31.3 irq 17
orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 
0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xcd800-0xcefff,0xcf000-0xd07ff on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: parallel port not found.
APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
APIC_IO: routing 8254 via IOAPIC #0 intpin 2
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
acd0: CDROM <SAMSUNG CD-ROM SN-124> at ata1-master PIO4
Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
pass0 at iir0 bus 1 target 6 lun 0
pass0: <ESG-SHV SCA HSBP M16 0.05> Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device
da0 at iir0 bus 2 target 0 lun 0
da0: <IIR Host Drive   #00 > Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 69735MB (142817850 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8890C)
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a