On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:39:24PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> 
> you could also use it to shakeout parallel make problems in the build.sh
> framework.  my dual 50MHz SS20 consistently dies when building X if I
> try to build.sh -j2 it.  85MHz will have different races, but eight of
> 'em should shake more of them out.
> 

Probably would not help too much - the 8 processors are arranged as 4
dual processor system boards hooked together with rather unique packet
switching bus (xd-bus iirc), from memory the m-bus transactions get
wrapped up into a xd-bus packet and shoved over to the other system
boards.

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Brett Lymn