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Date:      Thu, 5 Jun 1997 00:35:45 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        peter@spinner.dialix.com.au (Peter Wemm)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Supermicro SMP boards?
Message-ID:  <199706041505.AAA16049@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199706041453.WAA18319@spinner.dialix.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Jun 4, 97 10:53:50 pm"

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Peter Wemm stands accused of saying:
> 
> However, the SuperMicro board in question does have a workaround, see the 
> option SMP_TIMER_NC, where the 8259 is set up so that it provides a daisy 
> chained interrupt to the IO apic, and we treat that as an IRQ0.  This works 

Fair enough; this is only listed for the E and not the F board - is it
actually an issue for both?

Either way, and more relevant to me given your more local context, is
this a reasonable price for a dual P6 board?

Ta!
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