From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Apr 2 22:17:19 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA24661 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 22:17:19 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA24655; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 22:17:16 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id WAA03440; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 22:16:27 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504030516.WAA03440@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: dual-Pentium motherboard To: ts@icu.ac.jp Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 22:16:27 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freefall.cdrom.com, hardware@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9504030458.AA13879@slowhand.icu.ac.jp> from "TOMITA Shigenari" at Apr 3, 95 01:58:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1250 Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Hello! Ko-n-ni-chi-wa!! > > Is FreeBSD 2.0 able to run on AMI's Titan II with a single Pentium (I > mean ... if the 2nd processor socket is vacant)? This question may be > silly for you but I'm unsure on PC hardware. I'd appreciate it if you > give me advice. Thank you!! Yes, it should run just fine unless AMI has done something really stupid and made the board incompatible in some strange way. I have run FreeBSD on the ASUS PCI/E-P54NP4 and the PCI/I-P54NP4 dual pentium boards, both with 1 cpu and 2 cpu's plugged in, it just won't use the second CPU. You can also run with the APIC enabled as FreeBSD does not touch the APIC and leaves it in virtual wire or PIC mode: This is a Pentium 735\\90 or 815\\100 Stepping=1 Features=0x7bf FPU VME PSE MCE CX8 APIC Before you buy the board I would suggest checking to find out if it is Intel MPspec 1.1 compliant. If it is there is a good chance it will work with the SMP support that is planned for a future release of FreeBSD. If it is not compliant I suggest you get one of the ASUS boards, they both are compliant. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD