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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:10:07 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Brian Stark" <brian.stark@onstor.com>
Cc: "Abdallah Harb" <abdallah.harb@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: bobcat motherboard
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Shoot, somewhere in the back of my mind I think I remember you
or Warren mentioning that we had some of these.  Would be great.  I
think one of you even asked me my first or second week here if I thought
it would be useful and I said no.  First week stupidity.  I'll poke
about down here.  I'm good for that.

Cheers,

a

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:30:59 -0800 "Brian Stark"
<brian.stark@onstor.com> wrote:

> 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.  
> 
> 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.  
> 
> 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 
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:29 PM
> > To: Brian Stark
> > Cc: Abdallah Harb
> > Subject: bobcat motherboard
> > 
> > Hi Brian,
> > 
> > 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 
> > you might know about it.  One of my favorite things about it 
> > is that is says 1GHz for the RM9K processor, which is music 
> > to my ears, of course.
> > 
> > s/n 0450010500 rev. 4.0
> > 
> > 
