Re: Testing SMP on PowerEdge 8450
Havard Eidnes <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:14:09 +0100 (CET)
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> 1.6.2 doesn't support SMP does it? I should be getting -current? The answers are "not for i386" and "yes", respectively. > Is there a recent snapshot or ISO image? The snaps I saw from > FTP were from 2003. There's no iso image, but there are snapshots available from releng.netbsd.org, results from our autobuild setup, the most recent for i386 is in ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/current/200403170000/i386/ > Also, I have 24 Gig of RAM in the machine. The BIOS detected just fine. NetBSD does, as far as I recall, not presently have support for using memory above the 4GB mark on the i386 port. If you feel adventurous, you might try to include largepages.inc in your custom kernel configuration file to get the kernel text mapped with "large pages" (which is one components needed to access memory above the 4GB mark, if I've understood correctly), but I don't think this will do anything else than use this sort of mapping for the kernel text. Regards, and good luck, - HÃ¥vard