Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 09:12:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <clefevre@citeweb.net>, <peter@wemm.org>, <jerry@thehutt.org>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: adding athlon xp to bsd.cpu.mk Message-ID: <20011028085202.N65051-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <E15xhi2-0002de-00@smtp4.port.ru>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >AFAIK, not quite. The core name is Palomino and there are three >processors based on it: Athlon XP, Athlon MP and Duron. The AMD Athlon XP, MP, and mobile Athlon4 are based on the Palomino core. The 1Ghz+ Durons are based on the Morgan core, a Palomino derivative with less cache. The previous generations of Athlons were based on the K7, K75, and Thunderbird cores. What is a bit misleading about the naming of AMD's processors is that at present they are all SMP capable. You can use dual Thunderbirds or Durons or XPs without a problem, generally. In fact, you can even use processors of different clock speeds in an SMP configuration fairly successfully, though it is not recommended. What you pay for when you buy Athlon MP processors is AMD's SmartMP technology. SmartMP includes a more advanced cache coherency protocol and an inter-processor "snoop" bus that allows the processors to exchange data from their caches instead of going directly to main memory all the time. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine <bandix at looksharp.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011028085202.N65051-100000>