Date: Tue, 20 Aug 96 14:55:03 -0400 From: John Soward <soward@neworder.cc.uky.edu> To: Dayton Clark <dayton@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Server 720 Message-ID: <199608201855.OAA03810@neworder.cc.uky.edu> References: <199608201742.NAA06188@robeson.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu>
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I'd be willing to be that FreeBSD-smp will not work on the 720, in fact, I'd wonder if FreeBSD would work at all on the 720...I'm interested in any experiences with the 704 (P-Pro), though... The 720 uses a proprietary scheme for connected the CPUs (c-bus II) as opposed to following Intel's guidlines. Also it has, in addition to PCI and EISA, MicroChannel stuff in it. Just to add to the complexity, their C-bus II design lets you put in CPUs of variying speeds, and they use an L3 cache. Now the 704 uses what looks like a little more standard scheme, although it sticks you with the 4 CPU max (512K P-Pros). I'd love to hear about any experiences with this unit. thanx, --- John Soward <a href="http://neworder.cc.uky.edu/">JpS</a>; Systems Programmer 'The Midnight sun will burn you up.' University of Kentucky (NeXT and MIME mail OK) -R. Smith
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