Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:32:10 -0800 From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP results with a P6DLF and 686DLX Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980131173210.007ea520@hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <34D39B2E.70F0BF24@feral.com> References: <199801311955.MAA12600@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
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At 01:44 PM 1/31/98 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: >FYI- SuperMicro P6NDH- I *hate* AMI bios, but this particular board >has 8 PCI slots plus I2O/i960, which, with 16MB ram for the I2O, >essentially gives you zero latency PCI<>MEM writes... w/o OS >knowledge. I2O - did the I2O consortium ever release their specifications to the public? Is it now legal to write I20 software for which the source code is public? Last I heard this was going to be a big stumbling block to getting Linux or FreeBSD to run on it without making an "I2O" kernel module proprietary to a commercial company willing to spend $5K to join the consortium (and withstand being kicked out by Microsoft.) Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- "Optimism is a strategy for making brian@apache.org a better future." - Noam Chomsky brian@hyperreal.orghome | help
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