Subject: Re: Another support question...
To: None <greywolf@defender.vas.viewlogic.com>
From: James da Silva <jds@cs.umd.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/17/1996 21:08:48
 > Does NetBSD support a Multiprocessor Pentium board which only has one
 > processor in it?

Yes, or even a board with multiple processors installed in it (the others
are unused).

 > If so, which boards are supported?

Any that support the Intel MP spec.  Certainly all the inexpensive
"dual-pentium" boards that I've heard of are of the same ilk.

 > I'm supposing not since I didn't see it in the FAQ.

It probably should be.

I'm running NetBSD on an (older) ASUS dual-P90 right now.  Works fine, but
these cheap dual-pentiums weren't worth it because of the shared L2 cache.
Anything that doesn't fit in the onchip 8K cache isn't going to get too
much parallelism.

The higher-end multi-cpu Pentium systems with large per-cpu L2 caches are
more interesting, as should be the forthcoming crop of multi-cpu P6es.

Jaime
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