Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:56:17 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/ia64 machdep.c Message-ID: <200410060956.17014.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <3E1495F0-1748-11D9-B102-000D93C47836@xcllnt.net> References: <200410060243.i962hSjr099465@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041005220848.G560@odysseus.silby.com> <3E1495F0-1748-11D9-B102-000D93C47836@xcllnt.net>
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On Tuesday 05 October 2004 08:31 pm, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Oct 5, 2004, at 8:09 PM, Mike Silbersack wrote: > >> Log: > >> Add the Madison II, which is the second generation Madison. The > >> Madison II > >> is model 2 in the Itanium 2 family and has up to 9MB of L3 cache > >> and clocks > >> higher than 1.5Ghz. There's no LV variant AFAICT. > >> > >> Revision Changes Path > >> 1.190 +3 -0 src/sys/ia64/ia64/machdep.c > > > > If I get a quad processor Madison II system, can I boot w/o ram? > > :) > > Alas, you need at least 8 cpus because we load the kernel at 64MB. A > video > card with at least 32MB can be used as a workaround and gives the > cheapest configuration. I have a matrox MGA G400 that has a nasty habit of losing its bios flash and/or configuration eeprom settings and reverting to a 32MB pci ram card. I was actually waiting for it to happen again so that I could hook it up for a dmesg / ktr buffer that completely survives a reset. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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