From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 3 01:41:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA15707 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 01:41:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from manchester.genrad.com (x153.genrad.co.uk [195.99.3.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA15702 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 01:41:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swindellsr@genrad.co.uk) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 01:41:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199811030941.BAA15702@hub.freebsd.org> Received: from CDP275.uk.genrad.com by manchester.genrad.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1460.8) id VTWQB60N; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 09:40:53 -0000 From: Robert Swindells To: jabley@clear.co.nz CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19981103134830.B11452@clear.co.nz> (message from Joe Abley on Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:48:30 +1300) Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Strongarm? Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Re: announcement copied below - a StrongARM RedHat distribution would >give some more background reading for FreeBSD porting, with the usual >BSD/GPL caveats. Corel Computer already have Linux on their NetWinder, my reading of the announcement is just that they are making it look the same as RH 5.1. >There is also a cool idea brewing in the UK to mount 6 or 8 233MHz >StrongARM CPUs on a single dual-bus PCI card, each processor with its >own RAM and flash for booting: > > http://www.chaltech.com/ > http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/sa-beowulf > >Now _that_ would be a compact platform for clustering - a nasty old >P90 motherboard to act as an NFS server and router, and 32 x 233MHz >StrongARM processors running IP over the PCI bus. All in a single >mini-tower chassis. Mmmmmm. That does smell good :) Chaltech currently do a single processor ATX motherboard which seems to be one of the cheapest ways to get a development system. Robert Swindells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message