From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 23 19:31:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA25053 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 19:31:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA25039 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 19:31:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id DAA26058; Fri, 24 May 1996 03:30:32 +0100 (BST) To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: AMD's K5 processor in SMP applications? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 May 1996 16:47:24 PDT." <199605232347.QAA17531@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 03:30:31 +0100 Message-ID: <26056.832905031@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote in message ID <199605232347.QAA17531@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>: > For the above ASUS PCI/X-P54NP4 (X is either E or I depeding on Eisa Or Isa) > boards any pair of stepping 5 or higher chips will work fine. Translation: you don't need a special `S'lave processor, just another ordinary P5? (assuming that the chip hasn't been sat on a shelf for a while) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info