Hello,
I recently acquired an old Apple XServe G4 with a dual 1.0Ghz G4 processor. I was able to install FreeBSD 10.2 on the machine with zero issues. My only gripe is that though 2 logical processors are present, SMP fails to launch and only one CPU is recognized.
Supporting evidence:
I have been using FreeBSD for years and am no stranger to kernel configuration. I know SMP is enabled by default and am unsure where else to turn to at least try and get the other CPU recognized. This isn't a mission critical machine, it's mainly a tinker toy which may become my local software repository if it ends up being stable enough.
Any help appreciated!
I recently acquired an old Apple XServe G4 with a dual 1.0Ghz G4 processor. I was able to install FreeBSD 10.2 on the machine with zero issues. My only gripe is that though 2 logical processors are present, SMP fails to launch and only one CPU is recognized.
Supporting evidence:
dmesg | grep cpu
Code:
cpu0: Motorola PowerPC 7455 revision 2.1, 1000.35 MHz
cpu0: Features 9c000000<PPC32,ALTIVEC,FPU,MMU>
cpu0: HID0 8450c0bc<EMCP,TBEN,NAP,DPM,ICE,DCE,SGE,BTIC,LRSTK,FOLD,BHT>
cpulist0: <Open Firmware CPU Group> on ofwbus0
cpu0: <Open Firmware CPU> on cpulist0 sysctl kern.sched.topology_spec
Code:
kern.sched.topology_spec: <groups>
<group level="1" cache-level="0">
<cpu count="1" mask="1">0</cpu>
</group>
</groups>I have been using FreeBSD for years and am no stranger to kernel configuration. I know SMP is enabled by default and am unsure where else to turn to at least try and get the other CPU recognized. This isn't a mission critical machine, it's mainly a tinker toy which may become my local software repository if it ends up being stable enough.
Any help appreciated!
