Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:22:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu (Kevin Van Maren) Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lots 'o PCI slots Message-ID: <199707231822.LAA15994@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199707231449.IAA28335@fast.cs.utah.edu> from "Kevin Van Maren" at Jul 23, 97 08:49:36 am
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> The first two are I2O. The dedicated i960 processor is intended to > improve PCI performance by offloading tasks from the main CPU. But > I doubt FreeBSD will support I2O within a year or two. If you have been following the -current list, you will have noticed a lot of PCI driver messages. Vinay Bannai <vinay@agni.nuko.com> has got the i960 probed and attached, and was last seen asking after gcc for the i960 (GCC does support the i960, in case you were wondering). So I kind of doubt it will take "a year or two". ;-). What I think is more interesting is if you could run the i960 as the default processor -- an i960 port of FreeBSD. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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