From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: whiteheadm@acm.org
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Request for Old Hardware
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 12:23:30 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1410051217230.21156@eddie.linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8WD_ZvHC16mM-Ra2nFcUnyFQmwYLUN=YGHMDwNckZTynsM_g@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, tedheadster wrote:
> If you have an ancient dual-processor 80486 system, please email me
> off-list. Yes, a few of these did indeed exist.
The 82489DX discrete APIC was originally designed for 80486 SMP systems
and Intel's Multiprocessor Specification explicitly provided for such
configurations. Unfortunately I was never able to track down such a
system to experiment with it and possibly make it work with Linux. Good
luck with finding one these days!
Maciej
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2014-09-23 18:56 Off Topic: Request for Old Hardware tedheadster
2014-10-05 11:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
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