FreeBSD 5.1-REL locks up w/ a SMP Kernel

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 20 10:24:48 PDT 2003


On 20-Aug-2003 Peter Losher wrote:
> I have a Rackable Systems 1U here that I am trying to get a SMP kernel 
> running on,  It has dual PIII 1GHz CPU's on a Tyan Thunder LE-T v10.7 
> motherboard (with ServerWorks chips strewn all over).  A uni-processor 
> kernel works just fine, but when I bring out a SMP-aware kernel, it 
> boots until:
> 
> unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
> APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
> 
> And that's when it locks up.  The first for lines are there with both 
> kernels, the APIC_IO line obviously only shows up when SMP is turned on.  
> Any ideas on what may be going on here?

You likely aren't getting interrupts from the RTC on IRQ8, so it spins
forever.  <to the list:> Has anyone else had problems with this
motherboard and/or gotten it to work ok?

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