SMP support and Tyan S288X boards

[Chris Dillon]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> Looking for opteron boards got some reports of Tyan S288X boards 
> working. Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD support SMP well in these 
> boards?
>
> In http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64.html it says that it 
> supports Mutiprocessor, so just wondering how it works on those Tyan 
> boards.
>
> Anything in particular that needed to be changed other than enabling 
> SMP in the kernel?

I just removed FreeBSD/i386 and did a fresh install of FreeBSD/amd64 
on my Tyan S2885 (Thunder K8W) with dual Opteron 244's and 2GB RAM and 
it works great.  Great board.  5.3-RELEASE/amd64 GENERIC kernel worked 
fine, and a custom 5.3-STABLE/amd64 SMP kernel seems to be working 
just as well.  It's building X/KDE/etc right now, but I won't know how 
well that goes until I get home.

The only thing I did to the custom kernel was add SMP and remove all 
of the drivers for unused stuff, including lots of ISA drivers (but 
not the ISA bus driver, we still need that).  Are there really AMD64 
boards out there with ISA slots?

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