Re: Local APIC on FreeBSD/i386

2004-02-25 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 08:41 am, Ralph S. wrote: > 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

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

Re: Local APIC on FreeBSD/i386

2004-02-23 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:20:57AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > As of 5.2, the 5.x branch will use the local APIC on UP systems. Yay! Hopefully my pseudo-NMI-on-ThinkPad-button hack to the ACPI DSDT will work.. BMS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list htt

Re: Local APIC on FreeBSD/i386

2004-02-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 23 February 2004 09:40 am, Ralph S. wrote: > 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

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