Hello,

I have a machine that might fit your needs: a two processor 1 Ghz 
Pentium III system (dmesg pasted below this message). There is one 
challenge to using this machine -- I don't have the special cable 
necessary to connect a monitor, keyboard, & mouse. If you want to 
configure BIOS settings, you can access these via the remote management 
interface on the serial port. However, the VGA/keyboard emulation 
doesn't work with NetBSD. You can see what's displayed on the screen, 
but you can't type anything. Of course if you use the serial port as a 
console, this isn't an issue. Let me know if you're interested. BTW, the 
cheapest I've seen the special cable is $150, if you wanted to go that 
route.

Thanks,

Jason M.

NetBSD 3.1 (GENERIC.MP) #0: Tue Oct 31 04:42:38 UTC 2006
builds@b0.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-1-RELEASE/i386/200610302053Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arc
h/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
total memory = 255 MB
avail memory = 241 MB
RTC BIOS diagnostic error 30<config_unit,memory_size>
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfd5e1
mainbus0 (root)
mainbus0: Intel MP Specification (Version 1.4) (IBM ENSW NF 4100R SMP)
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 3 (boot processor)
cpu0: Intel Pentium III (686-class), 996.92 MHz, id 0x686
cpu0: features 383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features 383fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX>
cpu0: features 383fbff<FXSR,SSE>
cpu0: I-cache 16 KB 32B/line 4-way, D-cache 16 KB 32B/line 4-way
cpu0: L2 cache 256 KB 32B/line 8-way
cpu0: ITLB 32 4 KB entries 4-way, 2 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 64 4 KB entries 4-way, 8 4 MB entries 4-way
cpu0: calibrating local timer
cpu0: apic clock running at 132 MHz
cpu0: 8 page colors
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 0 (application processor)
cpu1: starting
cpu1: Intel Pentium III (686-class), 996.84 MHz, id 0x686
cpu1: features 383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu1: features 383fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX>
cpu1: features 383fbff<FXSR,SSE>
cpu1: I-cache 16 KB 32B/line 4-way, D-cache 16 KB 32B/line 4-way
cpu1: L2 cache 256 KB 32B/line 8-way
cpu1: ITLB 32 4 KB entries 4-way, 2 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu1: DTLB 64 4 KB entries 4-way, 8 4 MB entries 4-way
mpbios: bus 0 is type PCI
mpbios: bus 1 is type PCI
mpbios: bus 2 is type ISA
ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 14 (I/O APIC)
ioapic0: pa 0xfec00000, version 11, 16 pins
ioapic1 at mainbus0 apid 13 (I/O APIC)
ioapic1: pa 0xfec01000, version 11, 16 pins
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: ServerWorks CNB20-HE PCI/AGP bridge (rev. 0x06)
pchb1 at pci0 dev 0 function 1
pchb1: ServerWorks CNB20-HE PCI/AGP bridge (rev. 0x06)
pci1 at pchb1 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
ahc1 at pci1 dev 3 function 0: Adaptec aic7892 Ultra160 SCSI adapter
ahc1: interrupting at ioapic1 pin 12 (irq 9)
ahc1: aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
scsibus0 at ahc1: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
vga1 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: S3 Savage4 (rev. 0x04)
wsdisplay0 at vga1 kbdmux 1
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
fxp0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: i82559 Ethernet, rev 8
fxp0: interrupting at ioapic1 pin 11 (irq 10)
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:06:29:1f:31:05
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp1 at pci0 dev 10 function 0: i82559 Ethernet, rev 8
fxp1: interrupting at ioapic1 pin 9 (irq 10)
fxp1: Ethernet address 00:06:29:1f:31:06
inphy1 at fxp1 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pcib0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0
pcib0: ServerWorks OSB4 southbridge (rev. 0x50)
rccide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 1
rccide0: ServerWorks OSB4 IDE Controller (rev. 0x00)
rccide0: bus-master DMA support present
rccide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
rccide0: primary channel interrupting at ioapic0 pin 14 (irq 14)
atabus0 at rccide0 channel 0
rccide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
rccide0: secondary channel interrupting at ioapic0 pin 15 (irq 15)
atabus1 at rccide0 channel 1
ohci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 2: ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5 USB Host 
Controller (rev. 0x04)
ohci0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 7 (irq 7)
ohci0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: ServerWorks OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com0: console
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
ioapic0: enabling
ioapic1: enabling
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 15>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
wd0: 14324 MB, 29104 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 29336832 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4 (Ultra/66)
wd0(rccide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2 
(Ultra/33) (using DMA)
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs
cpu1: CPU 0 running
wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)



Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> Hello all,
> as you might know the NetBSD SMP support is getting better and better.
> I had a discussion with some other developers and one of the configurations
> that we could support without stiffling progess are Pentium class CPUs.
> We don't think it is worth trying to support i486 class systems for
> various reasons.
>
> For this to work, we need access to hardware. If you have such a system
> and would like to support NetBSD, please consider to give us your
> machine. Details for shipping can be sorted, but even finding the
> hardware is a problem.
>
> Joerg
>
>