Compaq ML530 - SMP problem

When you hit F10 for the System Utilities, hit (I think...) CTRL-A,
and you _should_ get a message to the effect that advanced config
options are now available. I can't remember precisely what the
option is called, but it is very ovbiously to do with multi-
processor operation. There should be three settings for APIC mode,
and you need the one that mentions "Full table, mapped ..." (one is
just full table, and it's not this one you want.)

I am really sorry to be so vague - I just go through and change the
settings without taking much notice of the text...

Let me know if you can't find it, and I'll test it on one of my boxes
tomorrow when I get back to the office.

Gods no, it seems to fox a fair few folk...

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People,

I'm trying to set a SMP kernel for a dual compaq proliant ml530 but it
states that mp table is broken.

At first try, it simply hangs on boot time when it seems to assing irq
to apic. Then, on hardware configuration ([F10] at boot time), I've
locked all resources (IRQ, IO, MEM, etc) at Compaq Configurtion
Utilities, disabled on-board SCSI controller and now it boots,
initialize CPU1 but still hangs when going to mount root from
/dev/idad0s1a (a raid 5 device, Compaq SmartArray 221).

Follow mptable and dmesg (with kernel.GENERIC that boots fine):

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MPTable, version 2.0.15

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MP Floating Pointer Structure:

location: BIOS
physical address: 0x000f4ff0
signature: '_MP_'
length: 16 bytes
version: 1.4
checksum: 0xfe
mode: Virtual Wire

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MP Config Table Header:

physical address: 0x000f296a
signature: 'PCMP'
base table length: 516
version: 1.4
checksum: 0x38
OEM ID: 'COMPAQ '
Product ID: 'PROLIANT '
OEM table pointer: 0x00000000
OEM table size: 0
entry count: 56
local APIC address: 0xfee00000
extended table length: 252
extended table checksum: 176

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MP Config Base Table Entries:

--
Processors: APIC ID Version State Family Model Step
Flags
1 0x10 BSP, usable 6 8 3
0x383fbff
0 0x10 AP, usable 6 8 3
0x383fbff
--
Bus: Bus ID Type
0 PCI
2 PCI
5 PCI
15 ISA
--
I/O APICs: APIC ID Version State Address
8 0x11 usable 0xfec00000
--
I/O Ints: Type Polarity Trigger Bus ID IRQ APIC ID PIN#
INT active-lo level 0 8:A 8 31
INT active-lo level 0 8:B 8 31
INT active-lo level 0 8:C 8 31
INT active-lo level 0 8:D 8 31
INT active-lo level 5 8:A 8 30
INT active-lo level 5 8:B 8 30
INT active-lo level 5 8:C 8 30
INT active-lo level 5 8:D 8 30
INT active-lo level 5 7:A 8 29
INT active-lo level 5 7:B 8 29
INT active-lo level 5 7:C 8 29
INT active-lo level 5 7:D 8 29
INT active-lo level 5 6:A 8 28
INT active-lo level 5 6:B 8 28
INT active-lo level 5 6:C 8 28
INT active-lo level 5 6:D 8 28
INT active-lo level 5 9:A 8 27
INT active-lo level 5 9:B 8 27
INT active-lo level 5 9:C 8 27
INT active-lo level 5 9:D 8 27
INT active-lo level 5 5:A 8 26
INT active-lo level 5 5:B 8 26
INT active-lo level 5 5:C 8 26
INT active-lo level 5 5:D 8 26
INT active-lo level 2 5:A 8 25
INT active-lo level 2 5:B 8 25
INT active-lo level 2 5:C 8 25
INT active-lo level 2 5:D 8 25
INT active-lo level 2 6:A 8 24
INT active-lo level 2 6:B 8 24
INT active-lo level 2 6:C 8 24
INT active-lo level 2 6:D 8 24
INT active-lo level 5 4:A 8 22
INT active-lo level 5 4:B 8 21
INT active-hi edge 15 1 8 1
INT active-hi edge 15 0 8 2
INT active-hi edge 15 3 8 3
INT active-hi edge 15 4 8 4
INT active-hi edge 15 6 8 6
INT active-hi edge 15 7 8 7
INT active-hi edge 15 8 8 8
INT active-lo level 15 9 8 9
INT active-hi edge 15 12 8 12
INT active-lo level 15 13 8 13
INT active-hi edge 15 14 8 14
INT active-hi edge 15 15 8 15
--
Local Ints: Type Polarity Trigger Bus ID IRQ APIC ID PIN#
ExtINT conforms conforms 15 0 255
0
NMI conforms conforms 15 0 255
1

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MP Config Extended Table Entries:

Extended Table HOSED!

dmesg:

Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002
:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (797.48-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x683 Stepping = 3

Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA­,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real memory = 268419072 (262128K bytes)
avail memory = 256262144 (250256K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel.GENERIC" at 0xc04d0000.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
npx0: <math processor npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <ServerWorks NB6635 3.0LE host to PCI bridge pci0: <PCI bus pci0: <unknown card pci0: <ATI Mach64-GV graphics accelerator isab0: <ServerWorks IB6566 PCI to ISA bridge isa0: <ISA bus atapci0: <ServerWorks ROSB4 ATA33 controller device 15.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pcib2: <ServerWorks NB6635 3.0LE host to PCI bridge pci2: <PCI bus pcib1: <IBM 82351 PCI-PCI bridge pci3: <PCI bus ida0: <Compaq Smart Array 221 controller 0xb8000000-0xbfffffff,0xc6dfff00-0xc6dfffff irq 10 at device 0.0
on pci3
ida0: drives=1 firm_rev=4.16
idad0: <Compaq Logical Drive idad0: 138927MB (284522880 sectors), blocksize=512
pcib255: <ServerWorks NB6635 3.0LE host to PCI bridge pci255: <PCI bus pcib5: <ServerWorks NB6635 3.0LE host to PCI bridge pci5: <PCI bus sym0: <896 sym0: failed to allocate MMIO resources
device_probe_and_attach: sym0 attach returned 6
sym0: <896 sym0: failed to allocate MMIO resources
device_probe_and_attach: sym0 attach returned 6
xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL 0xc6ffff80-0xc6ffffff irq 5 at device 7.0 on pci5
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:01:02:ed:ff:28
miibus0: <MII bus xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp0: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet 0xc6e00000-0xc6efffff,0xc6cff000-0xc6cfffff irq 11 at device 8.0 on
pci5
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:50:8b:6d:c9:a8
inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
eisa0: <EISA bus mainboard0: <CPQ0712 (System Board) orm0: <Option ROMs 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xcbfff,0xe8000-0xedfff,0xee000-0xeffff on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042) atkbd0: <AT Keyboard kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA sc0: <System console sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: <Parallel port ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
plip0: <PLIP network interface lpt0: <Printer lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O ata0-slave: ATAPI identify retries ...
read more »

Hello,

Yes, but.. how the heck should I do that? The only boot-time
configuration is the [F10] for Compaq utilities and could not find
anything about smp there... how to get to bios configuration?

Sorry if it is a lammer question, but..

Regards,

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