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MPTABLE(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual MPTABLE(1)
NAME mptable - display MP configuration table
SYNOPSIS mptable [-dmesg] [-verbose] [-grope] [-help]
DESCRIPTION The mptable command finds and analyzes the MP configuration table on an Intel(tm) MP spec capable motherboard. It is useful for debugging an SMP kernel that will not boot, as well as examining the configuration of a system. It can be run with a UniProcessor kernel.
It must be run with gid kmem privileges.
The following options are available:
-dmesg Include a dmesg dump.
-grope Look in areas it should not NEED to, use ONLY as a last resort.
-help Print a usage message and exits.
-verbose Print extra info.
SEE ALSO smp(4), dmesg(8)
HISTORY The mptable command first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.
AUTHORS Steve Passe <fsmp@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 April 28, 1997 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11