On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, DeWitt, Michael wrote:
> But, now it is clear that it wasn't me experimenting -- it was Abit! And
> not experimenting with the form factor which was hardly real
> engineering, just ballsy in the face of Intel, but with the Bios. So
> Abit has pushed out their RD to us to get the kinks worked out of their
> SMP bios and because they pissed off Intel, they probably had to do it
> on their own. This is why the BP6 has been so damn painful. I feel
> used.
Now Now.........Try this........
You have to realize that they are using the off-chip APIC like the classic
Tyan TomCat III. If you have ever had a P5 SMP, you would know about the
82093AA (IOAPIC) and the 82849DX (IOAPIC)
ftp://download.intel.com/design/pro/datashts/29056601.pdf
ftp://download.intel.com/design/pro/datashts/mp_spec.pdf
This is a start for you to understand what is going on.........
It is an excellent attempt, but with Intel burning the sense-pins and
apic-lines............well.....
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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