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Subject: RE: bobcat motherboard
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:30:59 -0800
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From: "Brian Stark" <brian.stark@onstor.com>
To: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
Cc: "Abdallah Harb" <abdallah.harb@onstor.com>

Andy,

Yeah, we used to populate 1GHz parts and even tried a few of them out at
that frequency.  We backed down to 800MHz and didn't see any performance
deltas (at least not back then), so we then starting populating 800MHz
parts to save some $$$.

As per my earlier email, I don't see a good way of hacking a board to do
what you want.  The modifications to the LUC Verilog is an option still,
and I also just thought of another idea.  We used to have 3-4 SiByte
SWARM eval systems.  These eval systems were housed in a standard PC
case and had a 1250, memory, and guess what -- direct connect to the
outside world with the 1250 GigE ports.  It's not exactly the same as
our hardware, but it's pretty close. =20

Let me know what you think about this.  I know that Dan had a couple of
these in his cube, but I'm not sure where they ended up after he left.
I also may have at least one here in Pleasanton.  They're old and
probably need some CFE updates, but this may turn out to be easier than
getting further on Bobcat. =20

If you think this is worthwhile, maybe you can check Dan's old cube
(right next to Brian DeForest) or with some folks down there (John
Rogers?) to see where the systems are at.  I'll also look through the
lab here.


Brian


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp=20
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:29 PM
> To: Brian Stark
> Cc: Abdallah Harb
> Subject: bobcat motherboard
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> Hi Brian,
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> I may have found the perfect bobcat motherboard to do some hacks on.
> Abdallah said that I should email you the serial to see what=20
> you might know about it.  One of my favorite things about it=20
> is that is says 1GHz for the RM9K processor, which is music=20
> to my ears, of course.
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> s/n 0450010500 rev. 4.0
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