I seem to recall a few discussions about the Dual Athlon buzz some
while back which had stated that the Athlon would essentially require a
completely different SMP spec than that currently utilized by the Intel
procesors. Assuming that this was true, one would assume that the O/S
too would require a different kind of SMP support in order to function
with these CPUs.
Unfortuneately, a recent thread has me at a bit of a loss here; in
that people seem to be speaking about the processor/smp chipset as
though they function just like Intel's do. Assuming that this
conflicting information is indeed correct, then would it not be
feasible to assume that the code currently implemented for using SMP
implementations under FreeBSD would be portable to the new Athlon MP
processor line?
The threads I'm speaking of, were to freebsd-questions most
recently wherein someone had been asking if the new Tyan ThunderK7
motherboard would work with FreeBSD. The general concencus was 'why
not', from the responses I had read... but no one who answered really
seemed to know for sure.
Just for the record, is it or is it not possible to run SMP with
the new Athlon MP Processors; or has no-one even tried yet? Currently
the only O/S I know of which is promoting the usage of such systems is
Novell Netware, and I am just curious if FreeBSD will (if it is not
currently) be capable of running on such a system?
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Nathan Vidican
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