Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:29:06 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@Compaq.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for AlphaServer 4100 Message-ID: <14504.32958.278472.861071@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <00Feb15.091232est.115202@border.alcanet.com.au> References: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2A2B@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> <00Feb15.091232est.115202@border.alcanet.com.au>
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Peter Jeremy writes: > On 2000-Feb-15 08:28:14 +1100, "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@Compaq.com> wrote: > >Well for one, FreeBSD doesn't support SMP. > > I presume this means `FreeBSD won't boot on an SMP-capable box', > rather than `FreeBSD can't see/use more than 1 CPU in an SMP box'. > It means the latter: 'FreeBSD can't see/use more than 1 CPU in an SMP box' We've been able to boot on DS20s for quite some time now, but we can use only 1 CPU. As Mike Smith mentioned, Matt Jacob has AlphaServer 8x00 support in the works. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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