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From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: dual athlons 
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Do they still perform better than the regular apic from INTEL though? I
mean it IS an EV6 bus.

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Mike Smith wrote:

> > Just curious, but are there plans to support the EV6 bus that the dual
> > athlon motherboards use? I'm not going to buy that kind of system unless
> > FreeBSD 5 will support it.
> 
> FreeBSD works just fine on the dual K7 evaluation systems that AMD have 
> been shipping around.  It seems that they wimped out and licensed Intel's 
> APIC design/interface, presumably because Microsoft wouldn't add OpenAPIC 
> support to NT, so the boards look just like "ordinary" SMP x86 systems.
> 
> -- 
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