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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:39:28 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Any significant gotchas?
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	>As some of you'all *might* know, I like playing with
	>OSes...  Any major gotchas in a planned booting
	>of plan9 on my SMP box? :-).  (Dell Precision 620,
	>dual 866 Xeon, with 1GB.)

Many BIOS/motherboard combos pay fast and loose with the Intel
Multiprocessor Specification and there's sometimes tweaking required
to find out where the interrupts are really routed to. If you have
a problem like that let me know and get a copy of the MPS table
(there's an Intel binary available to dump it under MS-DOS).

The only other gotcha is Plan 9 will currently only attempt to size
memory up to 768MB, you will need to add
	*maxmem=0x40000000
to plan9.ini to make it probe up to 1GB.

--jim