6.2-STABLE does not lauch 2nd core of Pentium e2160 CPU

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Tue Sep 25 06:06:20 PDT 2007


vermaden <vermaden at interia.pl> wrote:
 > FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE (GENERIC SMP kernel rebuild from today sources) does
 > not launch second core of Pentium Dual Core e2160 CPU, it detects the
 > cores [Cores per package: 2] but it does not launch the second CPU
 > [SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! <-- this should pop in dmesg but it doesnt]

My guess is that you forgot to include "options SMP" in
your kernel config.  Otherwise, what's the output from
"sysctl kern.smp" on that machine?

Best regards
   Oliver

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