SMP linux

[YhLu]

You are kidding. I put junk in the CVS server?

I guess he still need some time to figure out how to modify his mptable.c.

YH

-----Original Message-----
From: ebiederman at lnxi.com [mailto:ebiederman at lnxi.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:35 AM
To: Gin
Cc: 'LinuxBIOS'
Subject: Re: SMP linux

"Gin" <ginlin at nexcom.com.tw> writes:

> I've been stuck at this problem for a while. My linuxbios boots a
> NON-SMP kernel ok but not the SMP one. 
> The SMP kernel gets loaded and run. When it tries to access an IDE
> drive, an IDE command timed out before anything returns(kernel
> messages). My I/O APIC settings correspond to the MP table. 
>  
> All ISA devices are mapped to the I/O IOAPIC at 0xFEC00000. But where do
> we set this I/O APIC up? How does it know to route the IRQs to the local
> APIC?

Linux looks at the mptable.
  
> Another question is, does linuxbios setup the local APIC as Virtual Wire
> mode that via I/O APIC?

Usually we simply setup the local apic in virtual wire mode.
  
> My board is similar to Tyan/s2735, does anyone get this booted with a
> SMP linux before??

Good question.

Eric


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