Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:16:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <bifrost@minions.com> To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Samuka <s_almachar@viplink.com.br>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Old ALR-QSMP-Help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009121706200.21599-100000@frond.minions.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009121944080.1046-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > 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? > 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... How does BSD/OS support these puppies? While I realize that adding support just to support this machine would be illogical, maybe there's something easy that'll get imported from the BSD/OS codebase? Wasn't there something about P5's not being IMPS anyways? > 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. So you're saying Linux doesn't run on this box with SMP? --- Tom bifrost@minions.com "Where am I and why am I in this handbasket?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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