> > James, what kind of firmware update is needed? > > I have no idea ... I'm only deducing this from what had to be done to > ion to make it a 4-way. We had similar upgrades to some of the A180s as > well. It is unusual for a workstation class system, but the "too many > CPUs" message seems definitive. Perhaps the firmware is essentially the > same as a server class and it's inheriting this behaviour. I agree the message appears definitive, but my impression from searching the internet and the technical reference is that the c8000 doesn't require firmware upgrades like the servers to add a processor module. I see that various suppliers are selling processor upgrade modules (AB630A : 900 MHz 32 MB L2) for c8000. There are warnings that speed and cache must match. Some c8000s were sold without L2 cache, but I don't see any processor modules without cache for sale. Dave -- J. David Anglin dave.anglin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6602) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
