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Date:      Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:22:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        David Francheski <davidf@caymas.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Running independent kernel instances on dual-Xeon/E7500 system
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210041721250.96201-100000@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <006001c26c03$6a6e2420$3600010a@caymas.com>

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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, David Francheski wrote:
> I have a dual-Xeon processor (with E7500 chipset) motherboard.
> Can anybody tell me what the development effort would be to 
> boot and run two independent copies of the FreeBSD kernel,
> one on each Xeon processor?   By this I mean that an SMP
> enabled kernel would not be utilized, each kernel would be UP. 
> 
> Regards,
> David L. Francheski

Not possible without another BIOS, PCI bus, and separate memory --
i.e. another PC.

-Nate


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