From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 20 1: 4:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 001101.zer0.org (001101.zer0.org [206.24.105.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2A214DBB; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 01:04:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@001101.zer0.org) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by 001101.zer0.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) id BAA67806; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 01:03:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 01:03:02 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Mark Turpin Cc: Alexander Langer , Ludwig Pummer , Pat Lynch , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP and celerons? Message-ID: <19990620010302.B61640@001101.zer0.org> References: <19990619100442.A654@cichlids.cichlids.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Mark Turpin on Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 03:04:54PM +0000 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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