From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Sep 12 15:47: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from brutus.conectiva.com.br (brutus.conectiva.com.br [200.250.58.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA36A37B424 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (riel@localhost) by brutus.conectiva.com.br (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e8CMkDH03552; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:46:13 -0300 X-Authentication-Warning: duckman.distro.conectiva: riel owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:46:13 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-Sender: riel@duckman.distro.conectiva To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: Samuka , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Old ALR-QSMP-Help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Samuka wrote: > > > I have a ALR(Gateway today) QSMP w/ 4 processor pentium p54 166 Mhz, bus > > EISA/ISA, and I have try install FBsd r3.3 3.4 and 4.1 but it's failing > > every time when i enable the smp. The spec smp not is v1.4, maybe 1.1, i'm > > not sure.Somebody have some experience about this machine or could help me? > > I've got a bunch of dual's laying about at work that I'm running > FreeBSD/UP on right now ... would also be most interested in this ... Note that the ALR uses a custom (non-IMPS) bus. If only because that's the only way to keep 4 pentium CPUs in a cache-coherent state... The documentation for this glue logic seems to be very hard or impossible to find, some of the Linux SMP hackers I know have tried to get it and came up emptyhanded. (though I have no idea why they'd want to keep their old specs secret...) regards, Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message