Re: i386 MP default configuration support

[email protected] (Christos Zoulas) Thu, 30 May 2013 03:32:05 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.i386,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.smp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>,
Felix Deichmann  <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>sorry for double-posting, I don't know where it belongs to:
>
>I have added i386 MP default configurations to finally have my 
>Siemens-Nixdorf PCD-5T supported. It is a dual Pentium system with EISA 
>+ PCI (i. e. default configuration 6). dmesg appended, the system seems 
>stable, at least with the current PCI cards.
>
>Please find a patch against mpbios.c rev. 1.60 and a patched NetBSD/i386 
>6.1 GENERIC kernel with mp_verbose enabled at
>
>     http://www.flxd.de/netbsd/mp_dflt_cfg/
>
>Testers are welcome, especially for the supposedly more common default 
>configuration 5 (ISA + PCI). I don't even know if the MCA variants 
>existed as real products, but the 486 MP systems seem very rare, too 
>(and had discrete local APICs and I/O APIC which might be unsupported at 
>the moment anyway).
>
>This is my first "commit" :), so I appreciate all feedback and advice 
>for possible next steps.
>

Looks good to me. I would call for testers but I am not sure that
there are many such machines around. Does not hurt to ask though.

Nicely done,

christos