From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 14 15:22:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from zmamail01.zma.compaq.com (zmamail01.zma.compaq.com [161.114.64.101]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C9094031; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:15:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by zmamail01.zma.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 98400150; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:15:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from exctay-gh01.tay.cpqcorp.net (exctay-gh01.tay.cpqcorp.net [16.103.129.42]) by zmamail01.zma.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8936E317; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:15:36 -0500 (EST) Received: by exctay-gh01.tay.cpqcorp.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <1JHGAMBL>; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:15:36 -0500 Message-ID: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2A31@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> From: "Waite, Michael" To: 'Wilko Bulte' , Mike Smith Cc: 'Peter Jeremy' , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Support for AlphaServer 4100 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:14:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Compaq logistics" have nothing to do with getting an SMP box to the UK. I have my normal job to do here besides trying to accomodate everyone that needs systems across the globe. It is happening as was already mentioned. Thanks for your insightful comment anyhow. -----Mike -----Original Message----- From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:wilko@yedi.iaf.nl] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 5:03 PM To: Mike Smith Cc: Waite, Michael; 'Peter Jeremy'; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for AlphaServer 4100 On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 01:45:03PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Well for one, FreeBSD doesn't support SMP. > > That's been a killer for a while now; it looks like some progress might > actually be made soon, as we have finally gotten our mitts onto a box > small enough to send to the UK. (No offense intended to Compaq here; > just our inability to ship something quite as studly as a DS20 that far > in safety.) Duh. Compaq logistics should very well be capable of sending anything anywhere (including the UK ;-) So, assuming CPQ US handles shipping things should work out just fine. If they need a CPQ middleman in the EC they can drop me a line at my Compaq email address. > > We have sent an AS4100 quad machine to them to assist with making that a > > reality. > > I believe that Matt Jacob was working hard to add support for the > 4100/8100 (Rawhide?) families in time for the 4.0 release. I'm not sure Yep, Rawhide is 4000/4100. 8200/8400 is Turbolaser which is a different beast. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message