From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Apr 21 22:58:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA16477 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 22:58:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from housing1.stucen.gatech.edu (ken@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu [130.207.52.71]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA16472 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 22:58:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ken@localhost) by housing1.stucen.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA24823; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 01:57:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Merry Message-Id: <199704220557.BAA24823@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: hardware list In-Reply-To: <199704220454.WAA14074@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> from Steve Passe at "Apr 21, 97 10:54:57 pm" To: smp@csn.net (Steve Passe) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 01:57:59 -0400 (EDT) Cc: smp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk --- Make/Model of motherboard: ASUS P/I-P65UP5 with C-P6ND CPU card --- Http links to manufacturer and/or board info: http://www.asus.com.tw/ http://www.asus.com.tw/Products/SPEC/P6/pi-p65up5.html http://www.asus.com/ http://www.asus.com/products/specs/mb/P65UP5-spec.asp --- SMP kernel works [yes/no]: yes --- APIC_IO works [yes/no]: yes --- Special #defines/options needed: Make sure you enable MP spec version 1.4 in the BIOS --- Comments: It's a pretty cool board -- 8 SIMM slots, up to 512MB RAM, and 5 PCI slots. According to the docs, you can't use SIMMS with more than about 24 DRAM chips on them, so composite 64MB SIMMs are out. (i.e. 32 or 36 chip 64MB SIMMs aren't guaranteed to work) The 5th slot is the same as the fourth, wiring/interrupt-wise, so make sure that if you use those slots the cards work okay sharing interrupts. In general that shouldn't be a problem, though. The CPUs reside on a daughtercard that plugs into the motherboard. You can get either a dual Pentium daughtercard with the Triton II chipset, or a dual Pentium Pro daughtercard with the Natoma chipset. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu Disclaimer: I don't speak for GTRI, GT, or Elvis.