MPTABLE(1)

💖 mptable 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the mptable page from the General Commands Manual — yes, the manual name is folded right in here like a little name tag 🎀. This is the whole vibe, no cap.

✨ 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. Literally it’s out here doing detective work on your board 🔍. It’s useful for debugging an SMP kernel that will not boot, and also just for examining the configuration of a system. You can run it with a UniProcessor kernel too, no problem.

🚨 Important: it must be run with gid kmem privileges. Like, that’s not optional, bestie.

The following options are available:

• -dmesg — include a dmesg dump. Yep, it just tacks that whole dump in there for you 📜.
• -grope — look in areas it should not NEED to, use ONLY as a last resort. The all-caps are doing a lot of heavy lifting here, so pls respect them 🙈. This is the “I’ve tried everything else” button.
• -help — print a usage message and exits. Cute little escape hatch 🫶.
• -verbose — print extra info. More words, more clues, more slay ✨.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

smp(4), dmesg(8) — go read those too, iykyk 💜

📜 HISTORY 📜

The mptable command first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0. A whole icon since day one 👑.

💌 AUTHORS 💌

Steve Passe <fsmp@FreeBSD.org> — thank you for this contribution, king 🫡💖

And that’s the tea 🍓. This page is brought to you by the Debian edition, dated April 28, 1997, and the manual tag is still MPTABLE(1) — periodt 💅✨.