From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jun 23 15:41:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA05397 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 15:41:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA05387 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 15:41:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA01295; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 17:41:14 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199706232241.RAA01295@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Newbie query In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970623222250.00c036a8@sales_srv.ascend.com> from Jim Zeitlin at "Jun 23, 97 03:22:50 pm" To: jzeitlin@ascend.com (Jim Zeitlin) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 17:41:14 -0500 (EST) Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Greetings, > > Pardon the use of ( possibly ) excessive list bandwidth but I have > some newbie questions. > > I am exploring some communications server development work and was > looking into using the Intel PR440FX dual Pentium Pro motherboard. Do > systems built around this board generally run both the FreeBSD uni-processor > release and the current FreeBSD SMP release ? ( Not at the same time ! ) Are > there working drivers for this boards integrated SCSI and 10/100BaseT > ethernet controllers for these kernels ? The marketing literature describes > the SCSI controller "Adaptec 2940UW (7880) SCSI Controller" and the ethernet > as an "Ether Express". > I haven't checked the latest -current on that machine, but it does/has worked. use 'ahc0' for the SCSI, and fxp0 for the ethernet. I am currently running that machine with SMP-current as of a week or so ago. There is a bit of a trick that you need to select APIC interrupts or somesuch in the bios. John