Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 00:47:29 +0200 (SAT) From: rv@groa.uct.ac.za (Russell Vincent) To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Intel XXpress - the conclusion Message-ID: <m0uzsdV-0004vdC@groa.uct.ac.za>
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Just a final status report on the work that Steve and I have done on the Intel XXpress and FreeBSD's SMP. We managed to get SMP working very well on the machine, although only with some debug code included, which makes for some suspicious timing bugs. I am sure Steve will elaborate when he submits all his mods - very worthwhile changes too. I am amazed at how well it worked. General interactive and network response was much more snappy with both processors running. I only have the machine for a few more hours, so can't do extensive tests. I am quite pleased with what I have seen, though. Many thanks to everyone who made suggestions and a special thanks to Steve who has done a huge amount of work on getting it going. Many late nights for both of us finally paid off. The whole experience has been fun and a very worthwhile learning curve for us both. Keep up the good work and I hope to help out some more when I actually purchase an MP board (not the XXpress - it is a little out of my price range. :-) ). -Russell
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