From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 16:56:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD8D416A4CF; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:56:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B988A43D39; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:56:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@evilpete.dyndns.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 920502A8DA; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:56:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F22E2B3; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i96GuHeA035575; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i96GuHUT035574; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter) From: Peter Wemm To: Marcel Moolenaar Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:56:17 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200410060243.i962hSjr099465@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041005220848.G560@odysseus.silby.com> <3E1495F0-1748-11D9-B102-000D93C47836@xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <3E1495F0-1748-11D9-B102-000D93C47836@xcllnt.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410060956.17014.peter@wemm.org> cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: Mike Silbersack cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/ia64 machdep.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:56:18 -0000 On Tuesday 05 October 2004 08:31 pm, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Oct 5, 2004, at 8:09 PM, Mike Silbersack wrote: > >> Log: > >> Add the Madison II, which is the second generation Madison. The > >> Madison II > >> is model 2 in the Itanium 2 family and has up to 9MB of L3 cache > >> and clocks > >> higher than 1.5Ghz. There's no LV variant AFAICT. > >> > >> Revision Changes Path > >> 1.190 +3 -0 src/sys/ia64/ia64/machdep.c > > > > If I get a quad processor Madison II system, can I boot w/o ram? > > :) > > Alas, you need at least 8 cpus because we load the kernel at 64MB. A > video > card with at least 32MB can be used as a workaround and gives the > cheapest configuration. I have a matrox MGA G400 that has a nasty habit of losing its bios flash and/or configuration eeprom settings and reverting to a 32MB pci ram card. I was actually waiting for it to happen again so that I could hook it up for a dmesg / ktr buffer that completely survives a reset. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5