Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 01:03:02 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Mark Turpin <mturpin@shadow.spel.com> Cc: Alexander Langer <alex@cichlids.com>, Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>, Pat Lynch <lynch@bsdunix.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP and celerons? Message-ID: <19990620010302.B61640@001101.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906191500010.7864-100000@shadow.spel.com>; from Mark Turpin on Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 03:04:54PM %2B0000 References: <19990619100442.A654@cichlids.cichlids.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906191500010.7864-100000@shadow.spel.com>
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On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 03:04:54PM +0000, Mark Turpin wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Alexander Langer wrote: > > > Yes, but they work with such a slot1 adapter which helps the Celeron > > by doing the required stuff (afaik) > > The celerons have the necessary pins to support multi-processing, > but intel lists them as reserved in the data sheets. I do know that MSI > (MicroStar) has released a PPGA->Slot1 converter with a jumper that > connects the pins. All you have to do is use two PPGA celerons and two of > these converters and it works. There is some more information > available(part numbers and a picture) at http://www.cpu-central.com/ An acquaintance of mine who is a former member of the Celeron development team said that the Celerons can do SMP, but there is a bug that couldn't be fixed (in the time they had, without breaking other test cycles), so they shouldn't be trusted for that. I have no further details on the bug at this time. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Was Jimi's modem a Purple Hayes? mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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