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Date:      Sun, 31 Dec 2000 18:38:56 -0500
From:      Peter Petrakis <ppetrakis@alphalinux.org>
To:        scanner@jurai.net
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: API CS20 support? Any good axp based server solutions?
Message-ID:  <3A4FC390.76265C6B@alphalinux.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012301853040.96885-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <14927.38434.715703.641740@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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> I have no idea what the CS20 is under the hood, I don't see any
> technical docs regarding the CS20 on API's site..  I'd hold off on
> buying a CS20 until you see some sort of an announcement that we
> support it.
> 
> If anybody from API is reading this, I'd be happy to get FreeBSD
> going on a CS20...

I'd be happy to help :-). I have access to a  CS20 or two at work.
I see no problem in BSD supporting the CS20. Tru64 see's it as a ES40
with only two processors (same southbridge). So if FreeBSD supports the
ES40 you're pretty much there. The onboard scsi is a sym 53c8000 and it
has UDMA 66
onboard. Besides that it has advanced I2C support and dual intel 10/100
ethernet. 

I'll try and install FreeBSD (sometime this week) and let you know what
I find. 
I don't have much time on these things since they're currently being
used for
other more important purposes. I'll see what I can do.

If you dont hear back from me in a week, please email me.

Here's a dump from /proc/cpuinfo for the curious, I'm not sure if
the system variation is correct. This IS an engineering prototype mind
you.

[root@localhost /root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
cpu			: Alpha
cpu model		: Unknown
cpu variation		: 7
cpu revision		: 0
cpu serial number	: 
system type		: Tsunami
system variation	: Clipper
system revision		: 0
system serial number	: 
cycle frequency [Hz]	: 833333333 
timer frequency [Hz]	: 1024.00
page size [bytes]	: 8192
phys. address bits	: 44
max. addr. space #	: 255
BogoMIPS		: 1656.75
kernel unaligned acc	: 0 (pc=0,va=0)
user unaligned acc	: 0 (pc=0,va=0)
platform string		: API CS20D 833 MHz
cpus detected		: 2
CPUs probed 2 active 2 map 0x3 IPIs 321651358


Peter

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