Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:02:53 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com>, "'Peter Jeremy'" <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for AlphaServer 4100 Message-ID: <20000214230253.C77766@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <200002142145.NAA01024@mass.cdrom.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 01:45:03PM -0800 References: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2A2B@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> <200002142145.NAA01024@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 01:45:03PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Well for one, FreeBSD doesn't support SMP.
>
> That's been a killer for a while now; it looks like some progress might
> actually be made soon, as we have finally gotten our mitts onto a box
> small enough to send to the UK. (No offense intended to Compaq here;
> just our inability to ship something quite as studly as a DS20 that far
> in safety.)
Duh. Compaq logistics should very well be capable of sending anything
anywhere (including the UK ;-) So, assuming CPQ US handles shipping
things should work out just fine. If they need a CPQ middleman in the EC
they can drop me a line at my Compaq email address.
> > We have sent an AS4100 quad machine to them to assist with making that a
> > reality.
>
> I believe that Matt Jacob was working hard to add support for the
> 4100/8100 (Rawhide?) families in time for the 4.0 release. I'm not sure
Yep, Rawhide is 4000/4100. 8200/8400 is Turbolaser which is a
different beast.
--
Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands
WWW : http://www.tcja.nl
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