Re: Bebox revives

Rhialto <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:50:09 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.powerpc,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.bebox
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun 03 Feb 2008 at 11:31:53 -0500, Michael Lorenz wrote:
> SMP on the bebox will probably be a royal pain in the ass since the  
> existing code heavily relies on hardware cache coherency. I wonder  
> how difficult it would be to switch the CPUs for 604s just for the  
> heck of it, if I remember correctly they're supposed to be pin- 
> compatible ;)

That would be fairly difficult, since the CPUs are surface-mounted.
At least in mine (the 2*66 Mhz model).

-Olaf.
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