From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Feb 15 3:31: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from internal.mail.demon.net (internal.mail.demon.net [193.195.224.3]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1ACD3FC2; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 03:30:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gti.noc.demon.net (gti.noc.demon.net [195.11.55.101]) by internal.mail.demon.net with ESMTP id LAA09920; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:31:12 GMT Received: from localhost (kevinw@localhost) by gti.noc.demon.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00496; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:31:09 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: gti.noc.demon.net: kevinw owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:31:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Kevin Walton X-Sender: kevinw@gti.noc.demon.net To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8 way Xeon SMP on a IBM NetFinity 8500 In-Reply-To: <200002091641.IAA00710@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > We are getting an 8 way Xeon IBM NetFinity 8500 and want to test FreeBSD > > on it. Just wondering: > > > > 1) Does FreeBSD support 8 way Xeon SMP? > > 2) How 'well' does it support it? > > 3) Has anyone tried it on a NetFinity 8500, and did they have any > > problems? > > I expect that this will be a Corollary-based system, and probably not > Intel MP-spec compliant. If that's the case, we won't on it at all. I have spoken to IBM and have been told it is Intel MP-spec compliant, so we shall find out how it goes - ill let you know the results. Cheers Kev -- Kevin Walton Team Leader of Interactive Services Thus Data Services Demon Internet http://www.games.demon.net/ http://www.demon.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message