Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 04:51:38 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: nathan@vidican.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon MP / AMD 760MP Chipset (Athlon SMP question) Message-ID: <20010710115138.A7A05380E@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200107092108.f69L87E98563@mail.ipsnetwork.net>
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"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 -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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