V2 issue

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Mon Sep 29 14:45:00 CEST 2003


On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> * ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [030929 20:15]:
> > not sure why yet but ... all functions other than 0 are not having their 
> > OPS set correctly.
> 
> Ron, Eric, can you confirm that your MPTable is correct for the Arima
> Hdama? 

yes, I have booted SMP on the HDAMA using the SMP table from sourceforge. 
Works fine. 

> 
> Looking into /usr/src/linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-pc.c at function 
> pci_scan_mptable():
> 
> If there is an MP Table, and it does not contain the bus, it will not be
> scanned. Besides that it looks like setting pci=lastbus=<val> makes
> Linux scan all the busses up to bus <val>.

well, that's a bad development. But at least you have solved the mystery, 
almost. 

Why do my bus 1 tg3s' work in SMP and not non-SMP if my mptable doesn't 
have bus 1?

ron




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