Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:16:09 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: perlsta@sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP-able chips? Message-ID: <199801040916.BAA13166@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980102120405.7064A-100000@localhost> from "Chuck Robey" at Jan 2, 98 12:05:48 pm
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In some mail from Chuck Robey, sie said: > > On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > Does anyone know if any other x86 chip will work in a 2 processor > > enviornment? > > like the AMD K6 or the Cyrix M2 > > I can't answer the second question, but as to the first, all motherboards > available today use the Intel Apic design, not the OpenApic design that > the cpus other than Intel implement. The meaning to that is, if it's not > an Intel CPU, you're not going to run SMP with it. Does this include th ASUS motherboard which takes the CPU daughterboards ? Darren
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