I just built a dual-core opteron system (some of you may recall my bad
hardware last week that put a damper on my OpenBSD installation) and
everything went very smoothly with the default amd64 /bsd kernel (installing
from the v3.9 cd's). However, my understanding is that in order to take
advantage of the dual-core properties of my cpu I need to use the /bsd.mp
kernel (please correct me if that's wrong). The machine boots fine with the
/bsd.mp kernel, however there are two problems: a) the keyboard is dead. b)
the cdrom errors out and cannot be mounted. Both of these items function
perfectly under the /bsd kernel. Here is a link to a dmesg that shows the
/bsd.mp boot followed by the cdrom errors followed by the /bsd boot.
http://members.cox.net/supra/dm.txt
Any ideas on what is going on?
If there is some kind of issue with the amd64 MP kernel at this time (and
I'm probably getting way, way ahead of myself) would I be better off
performance wise on my particular CPU running the i386 MP kernel or the
amd64 non-MP kernel?
Thanks,
Jeff
