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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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