[Asterisk-bsd] Asterisk First Time Questions (AMD64 and SMP questions)

[Aristedes Maniatis]

On 18/02/2006, at 8:24 AM, 6ntis4t02 at sneakemail.com wrote:

> As well, the wiki mentions that the drivers aren't SMP ready, is  
> this still accurate? and if so, is this just a matter of the  
> drivers not utilizing a second processor, or is it a case of the  
> drivers not working at all on a SMP system?

I'd say this probably means that it is under a GIANT lock. At any  
rate this driver seems to be happy under a hyperthreading P4 CPU,  
which is (almost) like a SMP system as far as FreeBSD/kernel/drivers  
are concerned.

Zapata Telephony Interface Registered on major 196
FXS device: vendor=e159 device=1 subvendor=b119
wcfxs0: <Wildcard TDM400P REV I> port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem  
0xf8000000-0xf8000fff irq 22 at device 2.0 on pci1
FXS Attach for wcfxs0: deviceID : 0xe159
wcfxs0: [GIANT-LOCKED]


> As well are there any FreeBSD specific gotchas or problems that I  
> should be aware of when I'm installing Asterisk? The plan so far is  
> to install everything from ports and then deal with the Asterisk  
> specific stuff.

I tried a whole bunch of GUI config editors out there. All of them  
(that I tried) had hardcoded Linux paths and other silly annoyances.  
In the end, although the sample extensions.conf that comes with  
Asterisk looks daunting, I found it much easier to start with a blank  
file and just add bits as you figure out how they work.

Ari Maniatis


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