"Nathan Vidican" wrote:
> 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.
It works fine. AMD implemented Intel MPSPEC 1.4 for SMP and it is
closer to compliance than most Intel / serverworks systems.
There is no magic required. I have a thunder K7 for my desktop with dual
1.2GHz AthlonMP's. All 4.x+ releases will boot on it. The only gotcha is
that the older releases dont recognize the 766 IDE controller and run in
biosdma mode instead of UDMA66/100.
http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/thunderk7.txt
I asked the Tyan people about the special power connector.. That's there
solely for the AGPPro support. Other motherboards that have AGPPro have a
second power connector. The base system uses nowhere near the power that
the 460W power supplies are capable of, unless you start using the 200Watt+
double height AGPPro slot with the extra fingers for power feeds.
Cheers,
-Peter
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