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 |
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| 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