From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 21 17:35:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11651 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 17:35:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles145.castles.com [208.214.165.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11524 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 17:35:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA05384; Thu, 21 May 1998 16:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805212331.QAA05384@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Garance A Drosihn cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP, Intel PR440FX, cpu monitoring, etc In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 13:50:36 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 16:31:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Okay. For those who can't seem to find the machine I'm talking about > at insight, the URL is: > > http://www.insight.com/cgi-bin/bp/1480860161/web/technote.html?a=f&f=p&d=TODT102 > 6U Ooh, I want me one. 8) > I just ordered a second one of these $800 boxes yesterday, and I think > they still have a thousand left in stock (that's with just the single > PPro, of course, for SMP you'd have to buy another processor). I > imagine it is to my advantage to have many many of these sold to > freebsd folks, as it will increase the number of people interested > in freebsd support for them :-) They ought to Just Work. > But I really was interested in whether there's anything I need to > watch out for when buying the second processor, in case I want to try > for SMP in the fall, Should be nothing special. Make sure you're buying the processor sooner rather than later, as they're getting harder to get. > and whether there's a way to read the temperature > sensors inside the box while freebsd is running. I believe someone's already written code to talk to the LM78, if not, you could dig out the specs and do it pretty easily. There's a Linux driver that's supposed to do this (didn't work too well when I tried it). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message