From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 22 16:25:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A8816B932 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 16:25:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8742643D7E for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 16:25:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1FiDDO-000B1P-Bw; Mon, 22 May 2006 10:25:06 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1e4841eb0605211854i44c4aa4cm9dfc72506c2232ea@mail.gmail.com> References: <1e4841eb0605211854i44c4aa4cm9dfc72506c2232ea@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 10:25:05 -0600 To: m m X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is now self-hosting on the UltraSPARC T1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:25:32 -0000 On May 21, 2006, at 7:54 PM, m m wrote: > While > on topic, the Opterons aren't SMP either, and neither are the > ht-Xeons... I would like t\o hear the rational for the Opterons (presumably the dual core ones) not being SMP. They have two independent operating cores in one physical package. Who cares how it is packaged? I would tend to agree with you on the ht-Xeon in terms of general descriptions. I do not know as well how the ht-xeon work as I don't use any but it seems to me that the "SMP" moniker, at least in FreeBSD, relate to how things are scheduled. Btw, Opteron MB with a single dual-core ship get a BIOS report on Boot of having 2 CPUs... Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net