From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 10 10: 1:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4E137B407; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:01:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.144]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24838; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:01:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA15309; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:01:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15305; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:01:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac4.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:01:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: nathan@vidican.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon MP / AMD 760MP Chipset (Athlon SMP question) In-Reply-To: <200107092108.f69L87E98563@mail.ipsnetwork.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? > > > -- > Nathan Vidican > Nathan@Vidican.com > http://Nathan.Vidican.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message