From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 4 17:22:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B5537B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:22:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBC8543E81 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:22:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 96231 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Oct 2002 00:22:25 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:22:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: David Francheski Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Running independent kernel instances on dual-Xeon/E7500 system In-Reply-To: <006001c26c03$6a6e2420$3600010a@caymas.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, David Francheski wrote: > I have a dual-Xeon processor (with E7500 chipset) motherboard. > Can anybody tell me what the development effort would be to > boot and run two independent copies of the FreeBSD kernel, > one on each Xeon processor? By this I mean that an SMP > enabled kernel would not be utilized, each kernel would be UP. > > Regards, > David L. Francheski Not possible without another BIOS, PCI bus, and separate memory -- i.e. another PC. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message