From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 22 16:34:12 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 9064616B8D9 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 16:34:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 094E543D5D for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 16:34:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4MGY1Hx072860; Mon, 22 May 2006 11:34:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4471E7FB.3090400@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:34:03 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060506) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" References: <1e4841eb0605211854i44c4aa4cm9dfc72506c2232ea@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1476/Mon May 22 03:00:37 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: current@freebsd.org, m m 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 16:34:22 -0000 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > 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... Careful - two cores doesn't mean two caches, and isn't always just 'two cores glued into one package'. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------