[haiku-development] Re: Haiku SMP Status

On Dec 11, 2007 4:36 PM, Michael Lotz <mmlr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What I'd like to ask from everyone with the corresponding hardware is
> to test out whether or not the SMP setup is now (or still) detected
> correctly using ACPI tables and whether or not booting works and to
> what extent. Best enable on-screen debug output in the boot menu to see
> if the kernel starts up (if you get a "bootscript started" message this
> is right before the desktop should appear). Note that MP setups include
> multiple processors, multiple cores or hyper-threading if present and
> enabled. It is therefore possible that if you have a P4 with hyper-
> threading enabled that Haiku detects this as two CPUs now. Also if
> anyone has known issues he can point me to to test / investigate them
> that would be helpful.

For reference, at least on my single CPU Athlon64/Nforce4 combo, it
correctly finds the Nvidia RSDT, IO APIC and processor via ACPI, no
boot issues or other problems seen.

Rene

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