Re: Local APIC on FreeBSD/i386

2004-02-25 Thread Ralph S.
Hmm.. I'm running FreeBSD-current (as of Feb 12, 04) and it does implement 'device apic' for UP systems... but onyl if the APIC has been enabled by the BIOS. (Maybe I'm just doing something wrong there, though. However, Intel's Katmai CPUs have an APIC built in, I'm sure of that.) I have tried to

Local APIC on FreeBSD/i386

2004-02-23 Thread Ralph S.
Hi, I've been using FreeBSD for some time but I've never found a way to enable the local APIC on my system (UP, Intel P3/450 (Katmai)). What I'd like to know is whether there is a reason for the APIC not to be used on UP systems (like Linux does, for example) or if not, what I would need to do to