From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 1 21: 8:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A574C14DF9 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 21:08:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn2198.bossig.com [208.26.242.198]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA28769; Sat, 1 May 1999 21:08:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <372BCFAE.6B0AD09C@3-cities.com> Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 21:08:14 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rick hamell Cc: James Snow , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual K6 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James' letter got me curious and I went to AMD's web pages. They claim the AMD-K7 will superscalar pipelined, and have a bus capable of scaleable multiprocessing. See http://www.amd.com/news/prodpr/9882.html Kent rick hamell wrote: > > > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message