From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Jun 4 08:06:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA02605 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA02600 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:06:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id AAA16049; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 00:35:45 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706041505.AAA16049@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Supermicro SMP boards? In-Reply-To: <199706041453.WAA18319@spinner.dialix.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Jun 4, 97 10:53:50 pm" To: peter@spinner.dialix.com.au (Peter Wemm) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 00:35:45 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (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 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! -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[