Fixing SMP on MacBooks

[Florian C. Smeets]

Rui Paulo wrote:
> At Fri, 11 May 2007 11:55:38 +0100,
> Rui Paulo wrote:
>> At Fri, 11 May 2007 12:19:37 +0200,
>> Florian C. Smeets wrote:
>>> Rui Paulo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There tricks don't work on the MacBook Pro. While the source of the
>>>> problem might be the same, it's not clear why the tricks work.
>>>>
>>> Well i was able to boot a 7-CURRENT snapshot from February or March on a
>>> first rev. MBP and it did recognize the second core when pressing the
>>> power button right after this line:
>>>
>>>  ACPI APIC Table: <APPLE  Apple00>
>>>
>>> This used to work reliably.
>> Have you tried pressing a key?
>> I also have a first rev MBP and it works.
> 
> Oops, sorry, I don't have a MackBook Pro. I have a MacBook.
> Do you really have a MacBook Pro? AFAIK that trick never worked on the
> Pro version.

Yes, i have a MacBook Pro and it worked like i described. That's why i
replied to your mail in the first place :-) As is said I'm going to
setup FreeBSD on my MBP over the weekend and will give your patches a try.

Florian