From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Apr 7 14:02:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12856 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 14:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (sc-gw.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.191]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12847 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 14:02:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA10754; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 14:41:59 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199704072041.OAA10754@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Authentication-Warning: Ilsa.StevesCafe.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 From: Steve Passe To: Chuck Robey cc: Dave Alderman , Stephen Roome , hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Pentuim or Pentuim Pro ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Apr 1997 16:08:42 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 14:41:59 -0600 Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > > Does anyone know if this CPU has multiprocessor support? > > Not for FreeBSD. The basic interprocessor communications is done by the > APIC hardware, of which there are two flavors: Intel's patented APIC > design, and everyone else's OpenApic. Only trouble is, all the existing > motherboards, and FreeBSD's software, support Intel's APIC design, not > OpenApic. I'm not aware that there's any support in any OS for OpenApic, > or in any motherboard that's available. For the record, there is no reason FreeBSD won't be able to support OpenApic once there are CPUs/MBs readily available. It's just that till they do become available we have many more important things to worry about! -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD