Re: SMP - Asus Board / Intel Xeon

[Marc Winiger <mw_(_at_)_msys_(_dot_)_ch>]

Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Marc Winiger wrote:
> >  GENERIC -current  asus pr-dlsr533 (with 2 cpus on board)
> >  GENERIC.MP -current  asus pr-dlsr533 (with 2 cpus on board)
> >  GENERIC -current  asus ncl-ds1r1 (with 1 cpu on board)
> >  GENERIC.MP -current  asus ncl-ds1r1 (with 1 cpu on board)
>
> Nice youy send us dmesgs, but a short overview which combinations show
> _which_ boot problem really would help.

The GENERIC kernels boot well. But no chance with MP kernels.

pr-dlsr533 (2 cpus installed) hangs after:
  pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled

ncl-ds1r1 (1 cpu installed) repeats (for ever):
  sd0(gdt0:0:0): timed out

> One of your dmesgs show the machine you describe as "asus pr-dlsr533
> (with 2 cpus on board)" as really having 4 cpus. This machine shows no
> signs of errors, afaks.

That was, because Hyperthreading was enabled. dmesgs with different bios 
options follow.

Marc