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After 5 PM please slip brain through slot in door.

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May 17, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/17/96
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Does NetBSD support a Multiprocessor Pentium board which only has one
processor in it? If so, which boards are supported?

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

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James da Silva

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May 18, 1996, 3:00:00 AM5/18/96
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> 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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