Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:10:03 -0800 (PST) From: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> To: Kevin Van Maren <vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu> Cc: garthc@compass-da.com, smp@csn.net, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMI Merlin DP Motherboard Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.961217170905.10081A-100000@avatar.avatar.com> In-Reply-To: <199612180042.RAA26079@fast.cs.utah.edu>
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Unless I'm totaly confused (very likely!), the AMI Merlin DP is PCI based. Can someone explain why the P5 works by P6 does not? Kory On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Kevin Van Maren wrote: > >Would you caution against the purchase of any MP EISA board or just P6? I > >have several EISA cards from my current system that I would like to reuse > >and am considering the purchase of an AMI Titan III motherboard. The cost > >of replacing these with PCI cards makes the cost of upgrading prohibitive. > >Do these motherboards cause the same problems with other (Sun, SCO) SMP > >implementations? Does anyone have any comments either negative or > >positive about this particular motherboard? > > Rest assured, EISA support will be added, and FreeBSD WILL > have to deal with the stupid things people can do. I think > Steve was just saying (feel free to correct me) that EISA > support isn't going to happen Really Soon, and an EISA > motherboard will therefore have difficulties under the current > FreeBSD SMP (even w/o EISA cards). > > I would buy EISA. (Then you can help debug it!) >
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