From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 9 14:14: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC72637B407; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:13:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 14D3355407; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053A551610; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:58:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Cc: , Subject: Re: Athlon MP / AMD 760MP Chipset (Athlon SMP question) In-Reply-To: <200107092108.f69L87E98563@mail.ipsnetwork.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On 2001-07-09, Nathan Vidican scribbled: # 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? John Baldwin sendout a message to freebsd-smp with the dmesg and mptable dump from the dual-Athlon reference board (called Guiness... which coincidentally is the same board as the Tyan 760MP motherboard, since Tyan made the ref board). I could well be the final production board that one can get now for 500+ US dollars. You can find the message here (the URL is kinda long): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=651522+663926+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-hackers/20010422.freebsd-hackers+raw It seems to show that the person was able to get 2 AMD Athlon 1.2Ghz processors (dunno if they are the Thunderbird or the Palimino, aka Athlon MP, revision of the Athlon) running. Outside of FreeBSD compatibility, the motherboard does require a proprietary power connector and a power supply rated at or over 460W. The motherboard itself is an extended ATX motherboard... meaning that it may not fit in every case (although it will fit into a WTX case... just it can't use a WTX power supply). It also requires quite a bit of cooling since two 1.2Ghz Athlons (even Paliminos) require a lot of power and produce a heck of a lot of heat! The motherboard also requires Registered (ECC) DDR SDRAM... for those who want 3+ GB of RAM, one manufacturer got the thumbs up on getting a 1GB Registered DDR SDRAM module approved for use with the motherboard (don't know if it will fit into a 1U rackmount case or not). -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message