Re: SMP freezes when ttyd0 getty started

[Richard Nyberg <rnyberg@xxxxxxxx>]

At Sun,  1 Aug 2004 08:28:42 -0500 (CDT),
Eric.J.Haug wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> synopsis:
> sio0 does not work with SMP APIC_IO kernel
> and my hardware.
> 
> I have an Intel PR440FX motherboard.
> With a GENERIC kernel the system will boot and start
> a getty on ttyd0 that does the right thing.
> If i compile a kernel with the GENERIC config modified
> 
> diff GENERIC GENERICSMP
> 53,54c53,54
> < #options      SMP                     # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> < #options      APIC_IO                 # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
> ---
> > options       SMP                     # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> > options       APIC_IO                 # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
> 
> the system freezes on startup.
> If i turn off the ttyd0 line in /etc/ttys
> then it will boot to multiuser.
> If then i edit /etc/ttys to turn on the ttyd0 line
> and try to start it by kill -1 1
> the system freezes before the <CR> can be echoed.
> This occurs at least as early as the July 24 sources.
> 
> Does SMP and sio0 work for you?
> 
This is probably not  going to help you, but yes it does work for me.
Running with sources from August 1 on dual xeon with htt.

	-Richard