On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:21:49AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:17:23AM +0100, Mats Larsson wrote: > :> Via just recently announced their new Nehemiah processor capable of smp, > :> presumably slow as its precursor but also the lowest power consuming > :> processor at the market (at least with standard socket fcpga motherboard) > :[...] > :> http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/c3.jsp > : > :It says "IO/APIC support in future versions". So, it's not an SMP option > :today, as I understand it. > : > :-Kurt > > Although, this is more a deficiency in the way FreeBSD is designed. Using > an APIC is nice, but not absolutely necessary. All we need are good > specs on how VIA's SMP cpus interact with each other and we could > support it.
How else are you going to do the physical interrupt steering? Unless they have gone through the effort of implementing a whole new and different steering mechanism -- which would fly in the face of having off-the-shelf OS support from the people in Redmond, at the very least. > I like the 11 watts specified in the paper. That *is* low power for > the class of system they are selling. I don't see a clock specification > but I assume it is going to be at least as fast as the ~900MHz M-9000. It says "the new generation VIA C3 processor is available at speeds starting at 1GHz" in the paragraph under "Enhanced Digital Media Performance". -Kurt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
