Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 04:45:11 -0400 From: Vincent Janelle <random@goblinstudios.com> To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD760MPX and FreeBSD SMP? Message-ID: <20020915044511.5c90026e.random@goblinstudios.com> In-Reply-To: <20020914112120.GA775@unixpages.org> References: <442159807.20020904152900@FromRU.com> <OE205gZfUEJM39Twin80000474d@hotmail.com> <00f701c254ea$0f930910$3401830a@Buildt.com> <sa6lm6cfl91.wl@gin.myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20020914112120.GA775@unixpages.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
You don't want to run the XP chips due to the smaller L1 caches I believe. It used to be because the MP chips had the hardware prefetch though. On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 13:21:20 +0200 Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:23:54AM +0900, Hiroharu Tamaru wrote: > > > > At Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:39:37 -0600, > > Peter Lenhart wrote: > > > > > > I don't know which way he meant it, but the older XP's (1600's) ran just > > > fine dual in the tiger tyan board we have. I tried the newer ones (2000's) > > > but the board won't even post. I am guessing AMD has disabled this ability > > > in later processors. > > > > > > Of course you would normally want to run the MP's for a number of reasons. > > > > This is not a direct information at all, but what I heard is that it > > is true only for the very first few lots of XP's of 1500+ - 1800+ > > range. It could also had been just for the first engineering sample > > lots. Just FYI. > > -- > > Hiroharu Tamaru > > > > At least the XP 1800+ work fine in dual mode. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020915044511.5c90026e.random>