From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 9 13:59:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ipsnetwork.net (mail.ipsnetwork.net [209.202.83.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E89537B403; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:59:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nvidican@ipsnetwork.net) Received: (from apache@localhost) by mail.ipsnetwork.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f69L87E98563; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 17:08:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from nvidican@ipsnetwork.net) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 17:08:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200107092108.f69L87E98563@mail.ipsnetwork.net> From: "Nathan Vidican" To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: nathan@vidican.com Subject: Athlon MP / AMD 760MP Chipset (Athlon SMP question) X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.24 X-IPAddress: 216.94.6.27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I seem to recall a few discussions about the Dual Athlon buzz some while back which had stated that the Athlon would essentially require a completely different SMP spec than that currently utilized by the Intel procesors. Assuming that this was true, one would assume that the O/S too would require a different kind of SMP support in order to function with these CPUs. Unfortuneately, a recent thread has me at a bit of a loss here; in that people seem to be speaking about the processor/smp chipset as though they function just like Intel's do. Assuming that this conflicting information is indeed correct, then would it not be feasible to assume that the code currently implemented for using SMP implementations under FreeBSD would be portable to the new Athlon MP processor line? The threads I'm speaking of, were to freebsd-questions most recently wherein someone had been asking if the new Tyan ThunderK7 motherboard would work with FreeBSD. The general concencus was 'why not', from the responses I had read... but no one who answered really seemed to know for sure. Just for the record, is it or is it not possible to run SMP with the new Athlon MP Processors; or has no-one even tried yet? Currently the only O/S I know of which is promoting the usage of such systems is Novell Netware, and I am just curious if FreeBSD will (if it is not currently) be capable of running on such a system? -- Nathan Vidican Nathan@Vidican.com http://Nathan.Vidican.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message