On Sun, 03 May 1998 20:23:23 +0100 
 Dante Profeta <dante@mclink.it> wrote:

 > > What is the AlphaServer 2000 hardware like?
 > 
 > These should be the specifications:
 > 
 > AlphaServer			2000 5/300
 > No. of processors		2
 > Alpha CPU/Clock speed		21064/275 MHz
 > Cache size on chip		8 KB I-cache, 8 KB D-cache
 > On board cache(per processor)	4 MB
 > I/O support			3 PCI slots, 7 EISA slots

Ah, this is one of the wacky "cbus" machines... They way they do DMA
is interesting... I believe they use an Intel EISA DMA controller for
PCI DMA, and do DMA chaining by interrupt-reload-continue.

I think this is the "Sable" systype... There's a lot of code that would
need to be written, unfortunately :(

 > I found an home page at
 > http://www.digital.com/info/alphaserver/archive/2000/alphaserver2000.html
 > 
 > I don't know which graphic board is currently installed on, anyway X11
 > is not an essential point at this time. 
 > 
 > Due to some circumstances, unluckily, I have to be sure NetBSD will work
 > on this machine before to try to install :-(
 > 
 > Thank you very much
 > --
 >   Dante_

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