SMP Panic: no local apic

Petr Janda elekktretterr at exemail.com.au
Wed Jan 23 21:27:58 PST 2008


> This will give you a more appropriate error message, nothing more.
>
> The whole problem arises because search_for_sig don't find a "_MP_"
> signature in memory. The relevant changes were introduced in FreeBSD in
> version 1.220 of mp_machdep.c:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/i386/mp_machdep.c?r=1.22

Well when I boot with a UP kernel, it says 2 logical cpus found. So do we have 
the same problem?

It would be great if someone ported this newer code from freebsd or at least 
did something about this problem. I think theres a lot of people that can't 
get SMP to work due to this problem.

Petr






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