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SGI Altix 450
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Marc Lörner
2009-12-18 09:37:10 UTC
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Hello,
I have an SGI Altix 450 NUMA system here and I'd like to
run FreeBSD on it.
So my first question has anyone done this right now?

I already found wiki-page wiki.freebsd.org/ia64/BootLoader where
changes/thoughts of BootLoader for NUMA support are described!
So my next question is:Is there some work being done for FreeBSD
running on NUMA systems? If yes, what is the status of this work?

As I don't have time left this year, I will try to run
BSD on my box next year and let you here about success
or failures.

Bye,
Marc
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Anton Shterenlikht
2009-12-18 11:53:56 UTC
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Post by Marc Lörner
Hello,
I have an SGI Altix 450 NUMA system here and I'd like to
run FreeBSD on it.
So my first question has anyone done this right now?
I already found wiki-page wiki.freebsd.org/ia64/BootLoader where
changes/thoughts of BootLoader for NUMA support are described!
So my next question is:Is there some work being done for FreeBSD
running on NUMA systems? If yes, what is the status of this work?
As I don't have time left this year, I will try to run
BSD on my box next year and let you here about success
or failures.
wow.. this would be cool!

best of luck
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Marcel Moolenaar
2009-12-18 17:28:34 UTC
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Post by Marc Lörner
Hello,
I have an SGI Altix 450 NUMA system here and I'd like to
run FreeBSD on it.
So my first question has anyone done this right now?
I'm not aware of that.
Post by Marc Lörner
I already found wiki-page wiki.freebsd.org/ia64/BootLoader where
changes/thoughts of BootLoader for NUMA support are described!
So my next question is:Is there some work being done for FreeBSD
running on NUMA systems? If yes, what is the status of this work?
No real work, and the loader changes haven't been done
either due to lack of "need".
Post by Marc Lörner
As I don't have time left this year, I will try to run
BSD on my box next year and let you here about success
or failures.
It'll fail hard. The SGI machines typically don't have
physical memory in the first 1GB, which we assume. We
load the kernel at a fixed physical address and that's
the first thing we need to change.
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