From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Jul 16 20:09:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA29277 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 20:09:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from h2o.journey.net (h2o.journey.net [207.227.162.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA29265 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 20:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (listuser@localhost) by h2o.journey.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA06771; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 23:10:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 23:10:16 -0400 (EDT) From: listuser To: Chuck Robey cc: Steve Passe , smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: EISA cards. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just an FYI DELL computer still sells their SMP servers with 3 PCI and 5 EISA slots ... (Or at least two months ago when I bought one from them..) --Matt On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Steve Passe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > DESIGN DECISION: > > > > I am about to make a design decision that will forever-more make the use > > of EISA cards that use the EISA chipset DMA circuit impossible in the SMP > > kernel. I posted a rather long email about this several days ago but got ZERO > > response. So I can conclude that either: > > > > a: everyone agrees with this decision. > > OR > > b: no one with such hardware read that far. > > > > In the future I will use this "HEADS UP" format to get a summary of such > > info to the top of email. For the record, here is a repost of the > > pertinant info: > > Steve, I don't have an EISA smp board, so I felt I didn't need to reply, > but your suggestion is fine with me. Thinking about it, the only EISA > boards out there would be getting a little aged, and it seems fairly safe > to exclude them from smp work. > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD > (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > >