Subject: Re: Will 2.0 support Intel MP Spec. 1.4 machines?
To: Felix Deichmann <f.dei@web.de>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/08/2004 15:45:16
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 03:31:19PM +0200, Felix Deichmann wrote:
> Will SMP support for older (Pentium) machines following Intel's MP Spec.
> 1.4 make it into NetBSD 2.0? Interrupt configurations seem to be missing.
The only thing that's not supported is BIOSes that have the ancient
"standard configurations". I've not seen a machine like that myself,
and saw only one report of such a machine on a NetBSD list ever..
So yours may just work with 2.0
- Frank