Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:20:51 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: smp@csn.net (Steve Passe), peter@spinner.dialix.com, rv@groa.uct.ac.za, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel XXpress - some SMP benchmarks Message-ID: <199609130420.VAA01364@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 12 Sep 96 11:38:32 -0700. <199609121838.LAA07343@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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>> >> One thing I'm not clear about from the IO apic docs yet is whether there
>> >> are 15 cpu's and 15 IO apic's, or whether there's a limit of 15 devices on
>> >> the APIC bus.
>> > 1 BP, 31 (AP | IO APIC) (2^5 == 32)
>> its a four bit register, where do you get 2^5, am I missing something?
>Oh, ugh. Sequent supports 32 processors. I wonder how?
I don't believe Sequent relies on a whole lot of Intel-brand glue...
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