From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 2 09:07:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA14554 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 09:07:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA14435 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 09:06:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA07072; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 12:05:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 12:05:48 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost To: Alfred Perlstein cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP-able chips? In-Reply-To: <199801020229.CAA14647@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. > > also, someone said something on the list about a Slot 1 to Scoket 8 > converter, to put pentium Pro chips on a PII mother board... anyone have a > pointer to this information? > > thank you, > -Alfred > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------