Fixing SMP on MacBooks

[Rui Paulo]

At Fri, 11 May 2007 13:09:06 +0200,
Florian C. Smeets wrote:
> 
> Rui Paulo wrote:
> > At Fri, 11 May 2007 11:55:38 +0100,
> > Rui Paulo wrote:
> >> At Fri, 11 May 2007 12:19:37 +0200,
> >> Florian C. Smeets wrote:
> >>> Rui Paulo wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> There tricks don't work on the MacBook Pro. While the source of the
> >>>> problem might be the same, it's not clear why the tricks work.
> >>>>
> >>> Well i was able to boot a 7-CURRENT snapshot from February or March on a
> >>> first rev. MBP and it did recognize the second core when pressing the
> >>> power button right after this line:
> >>>
> >>>  ACPI APIC Table: <APPLE  Apple00>
> >>>
> >>> This used to work reliably.
> >> Have you tried pressing a key?
> >> I also have a first rev MBP and it works.
> > 
> > Oops, sorry, I don't have a MackBook Pro. I have a MacBook.
> > Do you really have a MacBook Pro? AFAIK that trick never worked on the
> > Pro version.
> 
> Yes, i have a MacBook Pro and it worked like i described. That's why i
> replied to your mail in the first place :-) As is said I'm going to
> setup FreeBSD on my MBP over the weekend and will give your patches a try.

Hmm. Interesting.
Anyway, I'll mail my patches to -current soon.

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Rui Paulo