Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:53:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPU types in kernel configs Message-ID: <200110271553.f9RFr8386492@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011027023922.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <15322.5178.561162.826552@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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In article <XFMail.011027023922.jhb@FreeBSD.org> you write: >Any chance we can get the 'cpu' keyword in config to be optionable? The cpu's >on the alpha arch are pretty much useless and unused at this point. Particularly since the EV8 won't happen. (Just saw a fascinating seminar on the design of the EV8 as it was planned before |c|o|m|p|a|q| killed it by sending the designers to Intel. 8-way multiple issue, four-way simultaneous multi-threading, 8 MB L2 cache and memory controller on-die...) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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