Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 18:39:15 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPU types in kernel configs Message-ID: <20011027183915.B8962@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200110271553.f9RFr8386492@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:53:08AM -0400 References: <15322.5178.561162.826552@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <XFMail.011027023922.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200110271553.f9RFr8386492@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:53:08AM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > 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...) Plans are to have EV79 max IIRC. -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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