RE: netBSD support for dual-Xeon. E7500, Hyper-Threading ...

["David Francheski" <davidf%caymas.com@localhost>]

Thanks Jason for the quick reply!

Sincerely,
Dave Francheski

David L. Francheski
Caymas Systems, Inc.
5330 Old Redwood Hwy., Suite B
Petaluma, CA 94954
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From: tech-embed-owner%netbsd.org@localhost 
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On Behalf Of Jason R Thorpe
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 1:34 PM
To: David Francheski
Cc: tech-embed%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: netBSD support for dual-Xeon. E7500, Hyper-Threading ...

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 11:51:04AM -0700, David Francheski wrote:

 > Can anyone tell me if netBSD supports the dual-Xeon architecture
 > 
 > with E7500 chipset?    This would require netBSD to be SMP capable
 > 
 > at a minimum (which I believe it is?).

NetBSD can detect the multiple virtual CPUs in the HT Xeons, and does
have MP support for x86 systems.  I am currently having interrupt
problems
on the E7500 when MP is enabled, however.  Unfortunately, I have not had
sufficient time to look more closely into why...

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