On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 00:17, Narvi wrote:
> On 5 Feb 2003, Benno Rice wrote:

[snip]

> > In fact quite a lot of PowerPC boards use OpenPIC as it's specified in
> > the CHRP spec, which IBM and Apple follow for the most part.  I know
> > that Motorola's MPC10x host-pci bridge chipsets also have an
> > OpenPIC-compatible PIC in them.  I also wouldn't be surprised if the Mai
> > Logic chipset used on the Teron CX motherboards has one as well.
> 
> 
> Ah, well, I didn't know that it migrated to the PPC mainstream - these are
> very much 95/96/97 memories. So by virtue of ppc mp support freebsd would
> also get nearer to x86 openpic mp support (should any such ever show up)?

Well the code will be there and be copyable.  I'm not sure if we'd end
up with a platform-independant driver, but the code could certainly be
adapted to x86 if the need arose.

-- 
Benno Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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