From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 1 20:48:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C83114E88 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 20:48:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id UAA11295; Sat, 1 May 1999 20:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 20:42:37 -0700 (PDT) From: rick hamell To: James Snow Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual K6 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I heard that FreeBSD isn't very happy running on dual K6s. Was wondering > if anyone had any first-hand experience with that? > > I'll be aquiring a dual socket-7 board with a pair of P133s and was > thinking of upgrading the CPUs and I hadn't tried any AMD processors yet. AMD chips are not able to do SMP. It's a limitation of the chip itself. You'll have to go with Intel to do dual anything. If AMD chips could run this way, FreeBSD would be able to support them with few if any problems. Rick ---- "Religion exists because man can't belive that he's nothing more then a random accident." http://www.grendal.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message