From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 4 01:16:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA13170 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 01:16:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cheops.anu.edu.au (avalon@cheops.anu.edu.au [150.203.76.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA13166 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 01:16:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au) Message-Id: <199801040916.BAA13166@hub.freebsd.org> Received: by cheops.anu.edu.au (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA147065369; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:16:09 +1100 From: Darren Reed Subject: Re: SMP-able chips? To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:16:09 +1100 (EDT) Cc: perlsta@sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Jan 2, 98 12:05:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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