From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 5 5:28:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F89C37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 05:28:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.jeamland.net (rafe.jeamland.net [203.18.243.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056C243F43 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 05:28:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benno@FreeBSD.org) Received: from ratchet.int.jeamland.net (ratchet.jeamland.net [210.15.217.227]) by mail.jeamland.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC117060A; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 00:28:19 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: Lower power SMP boxes? From: Benno Rice To: Narvi Cc: "Kurt J. Lidl" , Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20030205150908.G43637-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> References: <20030205150908.G43637-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Z0cR2URnA7/s8phqHTJY" Organization: Message-Id: <1044451698.640.12.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 Date: 06 Feb 2003 00:28:18 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-Z0cR2URnA7/s8phqHTJY Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 00:17, Narvi wrote: > On 5 Feb 2003, Benno Rice wrote: [snip] > > In fact quite a lot of PowerPC boards use OpenPIC as it's specified in > > the CHRP spec, which IBM and Apple follow for the most part. I know > > that Motorola's MPC10x host-pci bridge chipsets also have an > > OpenPIC-compatible PIC in them. I also wouldn't be surprised if the Ma= i > > Logic chipset used on the Teron CX motherboards has one as well. >=20 >=20 > Ah, well, I didn't know that it migrated to the PPC mainstream - these ar= e > very much 95/96/97 memories. So by virtue of ppc mp support freebsd would > also get nearer to x86 openpic mp support (should any such ever show up)? Well the code will be there and be copyable. I'm not sure if we'd end up with a platform-independant driver, but the code could certainly be adapted to x86 if the need arose. --=20 Benno Rice --=-Z0cR2URnA7/s8phqHTJY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+QRFyXjRwWofFmQkRAkDWAJsFjQPTAoM0rBj/WC44BMs9fh+wrgCeJvXH s0JjZKXASfAv+hVVE+kjxcY= =8Lxl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Z0cR2URnA7/s8phqHTJY-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message