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Date:      Mon, 28 Apr 1997 23:12:08 -0700
From:      Chris Browning <brownie@earthling.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
Cc:        smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Quad Pro 150 motherboard?
Message-ID:  <33659138.D27@earthling.net>
References:  <291.862250592@critter>

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> >The PPro's are stackable without additional electronics external
> >to the processor.  This makes it a *lot* easier to do multiple
> >CPU's up to large numbers.
> 
> The original design was for up to four PP's to be stackable.
> Unfortunately it transpired to not be the case (for reasons
> for signal integrity I belive, and therefore 4*PP cards have
> a number of buffers more than 2*PP cards.

What are you talking about here?  I have never heard anything about
having to add buffers for > 2 PPP designs.  Can you point to a
PPP errata for this?  I think someone has misinformed you.

Chris

Not speaking for Intel.





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