Subject: Re: Pentium Pro
To: CMS <cms01@tampabay.rr.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/28/2002 21:11:05
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 11:44:53AM -0400, CMS wrote:
> 
> Q. would a quad pentium pro work good with NetBSD,
> or are there better machines, to use

SMP isn't supported in NetBSD/i386 yet, exept in -current in a branch.
You can try it on this machine. Otherwise just get a more powerfull but
monoprocessor machine, and move devices (disks, DAT, etc) to this one.

> 
> My machine
> Quad Pentium Pro 200 / 1MB Cache each
> 8GB Mem

You'll only be able to use 4G with NetBSD, to my knowledge.
BTW, how does 8G work with a PRo ? I though only xeon could handle
more than 4G RAM.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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