Re: SMP on Compaq DL380

Doug White wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Matthew Sullivan wrote:
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>>>>>There definitely is a problem when you have identical APIC ids.  We
>>>>>already blacklist one version of this BIOS.
>>>>>
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>>>>That's not something I wanted to here right now... :-(
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>>>Are you __sure__ you're booting the right kernel?
>>>http://scorpion.sorbs.net/dmesg.txt shows a kernel that does not have SMP
>>>nor APIC enabled.  I'm still seeing ISA interrupt routing rather than APIC
>>>mappings.  And as noted previously the APIC IDs are not set which means
>>>they are not enabled.  (APIC IDs are always >0.)
>>>
>>>What is the output of 'sysctl kern.smp'?
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>>kern.smp.maxcpus: 16
>>kern.smp.active: 0
>>kern.smp.disabled: 0
>>kern.smp.cpus: 1
>>kern.smp.forward_signal_enabled: 1
>>kern.smp.forward_roundrobin_enabled: 1
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>You're booting the wrong kernel. Do a buildkernel + installkernel now,
>reboot the system, and check that the kernel's build date has incremented.
>Also watch the loader output and make sure someone hasn't overridden the
>kernel name in loader.conf.
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>>>Have you tried booting without ACPI?
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>>No, but I am doing now...
>>
>>Btw now I have remote console this is what the BIOS shows....
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>>   1024 MB Detected
>>
>>COMPAQ System BIOS - P17 (12/18/2002)
>>Copyright 1982,2002 Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved.
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>This appears to be the latest BIOS. Some Compaq systems are known to
>generate bogus MPTables and such when configured to run Windows. You might
>poke around the BIOS Setup and see if there is an "OS Type" field that can
>be set to "SCO UNIX" or "Other" (not in PnP setup probably).
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>>Boot without ACPI is show at http://scorpion.sorbs.net/dmesg-noacpi.txt
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>>kern.smp.maxcpus: 16
>>kern.smp.active: 0
>>kern.smp.disabled: 0
>>kern.smp.cpus: 1
>>kern.smp.forward_signal_enabled: 1
>>kern.smp.forward_roundrobin_enabled: 1
>>
>>I'm going to recompile the kernel again - with the current config - just
>>to prove it's there...
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>Good idea :)
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Ok, after building we have:
root_at_scorpion:~# uname -a        
FreeBSD scorpion.sorbs.net 5.3-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p9 #0: Tue 
Apr 26 14:35:20 EST 2005     
root_at_scorpion.sorbs.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SCORPION  i386

(why not #1..?)  the build date is current, the config file is at: 
http://scorpion.sorbs.net/SMP/SCORPION

dmesg from boot -v is at: http://scorpion.sorbs.net/SMP/dmesg-v.txt

acpidump -t -d is at: http://scorpion.sorbs.net/SMP/acpidump-t-d.txt

sysclt -a is at: http://scorpion.sorbs.net/SMP/sysctl-a.txt

Have I forgotten anything? (I haven't done a non-acpi boot from this new 
kernel)

Regards,

-- 
Matthew Sullivan
Specialist Systems Programmer
Information Technology Services
The University of Queensland