QNX 6.1 RTP and SMP

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Is it possible to install/run the downloadable QNX ISO on an ABIT BP6 dual
Celeron setup and have dual CPU support?

Tips and Pointers?

Cheers,

Todd

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Todd Meade <tmeade@telus.net> wrote:

Is it possible to install/run the downloadable QNX ISO on an ABIT BP6 dual
Celeron setup and have dual CPU support?

Tips and Pointers?

Boot from the CDROM, install QNX. Once it is running do…

mkifs -v /boot/build/qnxbasesmp.build /.boot

reboot. SMP enabled.

chris

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Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

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Thanks for the quick response… I’ll give that a try.

BTW, I’ve have a Tulip based NIC (Linksys 100TX using LiteOn PNIC II tulip
chipset) but the install didn’t pick it up. I had to pull it out and use
an old NE2000 card. Any idea with this card wasn’t recognized by the tulip
driver, it has worked great under Linux for the last 3 years :frowning:

“Chris McKillop” <cdm@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:ab2qs5$1ob$5@nntp.qnx.com…

Todd Meade <> tmeade@telus.net> > wrote:
Is it possible to install/run the downloadable QNX ISO on an ABIT BP6
dual
Celeron setup and have dual CPU support?

Tips and Pointers?


Boot from the CDROM, install QNX. Once it is running do…

mkifs -v /boot/build/qnxbasesmp.build /.boot

reboot. SMP enabled.

chris

\

Chris McKillop <> cdm@qnx.com> > “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

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Todd Meade <tmeade@telus.net> wrote:

Thanks for the quick response… I’ll give that a try.

BTW, I’ve have a Tulip based NIC (Linksys 100TX using LiteOn PNIC II tulip
chipset) but the install didn’t pick it up. I had to pull it out and use
an old NE2000 card. Any idea with this card wasn’t recognized by the tulip
driver, it has worked great under Linux for the last 3 years > :frowning:

You can try forcing the device and vendor ids on the command line.

slay -f io-net
io-net -d tulip vid=0x…,did=0x… -p tcpip

You can get the vid and did values from the output of “pci”.

chris


“Chris McKillop” <> cdm@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:ab2qs5$1ob$> 5@nntp.qnx.com> …
Todd Meade <> tmeade@telus.net> > wrote:
Is it possible to install/run the downloadable QNX ISO on an ABIT BP6
dual
Celeron setup and have dual CPU support?

Tips and Pointers?


Boot from the CDROM, install QNX. Once it is running do…

mkifs -v /boot/build/qnxbasesmp.build /.boot

reboot. SMP enabled.

chris

\

Chris McKillop <> cdm@qnx.com> > “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

\

–
Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

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BTW, I’ve have a Tulip based NIC (Linksys 100TX using LiteOn PNIC II
tulip
chipset) but the install didn’t pick it up. I had to pull it out and
use
an old NE2000 card. Any idea with this card wasn’t recognized by the
tulip
driver, it has worked great under Linux for the last 3 years > :frowning:


You can try forcing the device and vendor ids on the command line.

slay -f io-net
io-net -d tulip vid=0x…,did=0x… -p tcpip

You can get the vid and did values from the output of “pci”.

chris

Thanks again, I tried some of that, but without the 0x first, silly me. The
old ne2000 working so well, I’m not sure I’ll swap it out :slight_smile:

Next peculiarity. My CPU’s are running very very hot compared to Linux. On
Linux they were always less that 35 C even when kernel compiling make -j 3.
With RTP 6.1, they have made my bios temperature alarm go off (> 60C). even
when the system is idle. I’m not OC’ing or anything and my fans report 4000
RPM or so. Strange…

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io-net -d tulip vid=0x…,did=0x… -p tcpip

I thought vid,did won’t work on devn-tulip.
(I had to binary-patch it to make it recognize AboCom FE2500 OEM; YMMV)

kabe

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Next peculiarity. My CPU’s are running very very hot compared to Linux. On
Linux they were always less that 35 C even when kernel compiling make -j 3.
With RTP 6.1, they have made my bios temperature alarm go off (> 60C). even
when the system is idle. I’m not OC’ing or anything and my fans report 4000
RPM or so. Strange…

Are either of the CPUs clipping at 100% useage? The load monitors in the
shelf will show that, as will hogs.

chris

–
Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

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Chris McKillop wrote:

Are either of the CPUs clipping at 100% useage? The load monitors in the
shelf will show that, as will hogs.

Does QNX put the processor to sleep during idle ? Perhaps Linux does do

this, and QNX doesn’t ? This could account for temperature differences.

btw: I have a dual 1.2GHz Athlon mobo, and I had to do some careful fan
installation to get my CPU’s to hold around 50 degC under QNX. Doing a
by the book install would fry the CPU’s.

Rennie

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Are either of the CPUs clipping at 100% useage? The load monitors in the
shelf will show that, as will hogs.

The system is idle (no load in the montior, either cpu). Spin shows
procnto-smp at 197%.

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On Mon, 06 May 2002 07:41:28 -0700, Todd Meade wrote:

Are either of the CPUs clipping at 100% useage? The load monitors in
the shelf will show that, as will hogs.

The system is idle (no load in the montior, either cpu). Spin shows
procnto-smp at 197%.

hogs shows io-graphics at 50% (PIDS 22, SYSTEM 50)

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Rennie Allen <rallen@csical.com> wrote:

Chris McKillop wrote:


Are either of the CPUs clipping at 100% useage? The load monitors in the
shelf will show that, as will hogs.


Does QNX put the processor to sleep during idle ? Perhaps Linux does do
this, and QNX doesn’t ? This could account for temperature differences.

It should be halting the CPUs.

chris

–
Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/

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Todd Meade <todd_meade@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 06 May 2002 07:41:28 -0700, Todd Meade wrote:

Are either of the CPUs clipping at 100% useage? The load monitors in
the shelf will show that, as will hogs.

The system is idle (no load in the montior, either cpu). Spin shows
procnto-smp at 197%.

hogs shows io-graphics at 50% (PIDS 22, SYSTEM 50)

This isn’t a good thing. I would post on one of our internal newsgroups,
qdn.public.qnxrtp.os or some such.

chris

–
Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Software Engineer, QSSL – Lewis Carroll –
http://qnx.wox.org/