[SunRescue] What 4/xxx vme boards have on-board esp scsi?

[Lyndon Griffin]

Or, if you're really interested in writing some code, you can help us with
the FreeBSD/SPARC port...  check out
http://www.freebsd.org/~obrien/freebsd-sparc/  - the html is a little out
of date, but I have some fresh stuff going up sometime this week.

<:)  Lyndon Griffin
http://www.bsd4us.org

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Mike Nicewonger wrote:

> Hello Martin,
> 
> >Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> >
> >> Well, I have tried OpenBSD on the 4/600 board with SM-51's and it
> >> will boot nicely, won't boot with SM-100's, have yet to build one
> >> to put to work yet.
> >
> >Is that a 4/600 with one SM51 or two? OpenBSD is documented as not
> >even booting if more than one CPU is present (this would explain why
> >SM100s fail, btw).
> >
> The thing will boot with 2 SM-51, inspite of what the docs say, Theo has
> told me that it is fixed. He has also told me that it will now boot with the
> SM-100, although I have not yet been able to make that happen. My
> undertanding is that there is a flaw in the SM-100 modules that generally
> prevents them from booting OBSD.
> 
> >One thing I want to do is to try to port the SMP code from FreeBSD
> >into Net- and OpenBSD (currently, FreeBSD is i386 only, but hopefully
> >they have worked around the widespread single-processor nature of the
> >BSD kernels). This won't happen for a while, though (serious amounts
> >of copious free time required).
> >
> That would be cool, although the box with boot with 2 modules, alas, no SMP.
> 
> Not sure if I want to sell the 4/600's just yet. I still have 5 working
> 4/630 MP and 6/670 MP boxen.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mike N
> 
> 
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