cvs commit: src/sys/dev/sk if_sk.c if_skreg.h

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 28 April 2006 15:27, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Nate Lawson wrote:
> > Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> >>> BTW, thanks for your work on the reboot issue.  Oh, and are you using
> >>
> >> Don't mention it. The other big and still unresolved issue is getting 
> >> SMP working. I have tried to debug it and as long as I can tell second 
> >> core for some reason doesn't start at all. I have even attempted to 
> >> borrow second CPU kick in magic from xnu (Darwin kernel), but the 
> >> result is the same. My current guess is that since it's mobile 
> >> processor, the 2nd core may be turned off for power saving purposes 
> >> and needs some (ACPI?) hohomagic to power it up. Unfortunately I can't 
> >> find any documentation on the processor to check. It is interesting 
> >> that both Linux and Windows don't have any problems with getting it 
> >> working OOB.
> > 
> > I don't think there's any special ACPI thing to do.  If you have acpi 
> > loaded, the MADT (apic table) probe should just work.  Are you sure you 
> > have the latest -current since cperciva@ fixed the Core Duo limitation 
> > we had?
> 
> Yes, I do have the latest kernel (circa this morning). Do you have any 
> other ideas about what can be wrong?
> 
> BTW, in the following lapic_ipi_raw call, is the last argument expected 
> to be 0 or maybe it's typo and it should be apic_id instead?
> 
> /* do an INIT IPI: deassert RESET */
> lapic_ipi_raw(APIC_DEST_ALLESELF | APIC_TRIGMOD_LEVEL |
>      APIC_LEVEL_DEASSERT | APIC_DESTMODE_PHY | APIC_DELMODE_INIT, 0);

No, it's using ALLESELF for the destination to send it to everyone but
the current CPU.  Try enabling the CHECK_POINTS code in mp_machdep.c
and mpboot.s to see if you can figure out how far the AP gets before
it goes belly up.

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