Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:29:52 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HP rx2600 boots SMP Message-ID: <20030428222952.GC1152@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20030428210513.B90E62A8A8@canning.wemm.org> References: <20030426211659.GA631@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030428210513.B90E62A8A8@canning.wemm.org>
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 02:05:13PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > Gang, > > > > The EPC overhaul that is planned for 5.1 has some nice side-effects. It > > gets our rx2600 boxes to boot with SMP: > > Whee!!! :-) > > BTW; I hate to distract you, but we need to do something about the console > situation.. Yes. First sio(4) needs to be finished and merged onto HEAD. It may set a precedence (good or bad -- the jury decides) for how to deal with pre-newbus handling of MD resources. This is typical for system consoles. imp@ picked this up last week and I hope he got as far as testing already. rwatson@ very surpisingly put it on the 5.1 must-have-or-i'll-shoot list, so if there was no pressure already, there's now :-) With sio(4) out of the way we can work on display adapters, keyboards, bell/beep/speaker fodder. The discussion was there on -arch, but I at least didn't get the impression that people are warmed up for it. Not to mention lined-up for it. Unfortunately: my TODO list never seems to shrink enough that I can start working on it... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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