SMP works on athlons... while internally AMD uses the Alpha EV6 bus to
give each CPU a full 200MHz point-to-point bus between it and it's RAM, to
the OS, it just looks like any other intel based SMP machine. (It just
runs faster)
Ken
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, 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.
> 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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