Re: [SMP patch] io-apic-patch-2.1.97-A

Qiru Zhou (qzhou@research.bell-labs.com)
Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:27:15 -0400


W.T. Binneveld wrote:

> ...

> Hi,
>
> I have an ALR Revolution Q-SMP board with four P133 processors
> on it.
> I tried to run 2.1.97+IO-Apic patch, but it still won't work :-(
>
> I can run the 2.1.97 kernel fine with UniProcessor kernel.
> SMP_kernel compiles OK, but at booting it always comes to :
>
> CPU0: Intel Pentium 75+ stepping 0b
> Calibrating APIC timer
> ...... CPU Clock speed is 133.3200 Mhz
> ...... APIC bus clock speed is 533.3113 Mhz.

How could you get APIC bus clock to be 500Mhz+? As I understand,it should be
the same as your bus speed. I am not sure on it for
a Pentium SMP system. But the PPro and P II SMPs give the right
bus speed (66 Mhz or so)

I am using 2.1.89 kernel and testing 2.1.96 now.

> Booting processor 1 eip2000 : Not responding
> Booting processor 2 eip2000 : Not responding
> Booting processor 3 eip2000 : Not responding

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