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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:16:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <bifrost@minions.com>
To:        Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Samuka <s_almachar@viplink.com.br>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Old ALR-QSMP-Help
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009121706200.21599-100000@frond.minions.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009121944080.1046-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>

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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Samuka wrote:
> > > I have a ALR(Gateway today) QSMP w/ 4 processor pentium p54 166 Mhz, bus
> > > EISA/ISA, and I  have try install FBsd r3.3 3.4 and 4.1 but it's failing
> > > every time when i enable the smp. The spec smp not is v1.4, maybe 1.1, i'm
> > > not sure.Somebody have some experience about this machine or could help me?

> Note that the ALR uses a custom (non-IMPS) bus. If
> only because that's the only way to keep 4 pentium
> CPUs in a cache-coherent state...

How does BSD/OS support these puppies?
While I realize that adding support just to support this machine
would be illogical, maybe there's something easy that'll get
imported from the BSD/OS codebase? Wasn't there something about
P5's not being IMPS anyways?

> The documentation for this glue logic seems to be
> very hard or impossible to find, some of the Linux
> SMP hackers I know have tried to get it and came
> up emptyhanded.

So you're saying Linux doesn't run on this box with SMP?

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Tom							bifrost@minions.com
	"Where am I and why am I in this handbasket?"



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