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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Symmetric Multi-Processing
Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 13:34:18 -0700
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Javier Martin Rueda wrote:
] 
] I've been following this thread on symmetric multiprocessing,
] and I just want to know what hardware do I need to run
] FreeBSD/SMP (i.e., what multiprocessor motherboards does
] FreeBSD/SMP support)? Is an ASUS P54NPD4 (more or less)
] supported?

Yes.  That is one of the developement platforms.

I have an ASUS PCI/ISA board and Peter Wemm has an ASUS/EISA
board.

There are several other boards being worked on, but unless
you work at Intel, you are unlikely to have access to them.

Someone with a Compaq SMP box needs to jump in.  8-).


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@lambert.org
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