From owner-freebsd-smp Wed May 14 09:35:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA18735 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 09:35:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA18716 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 09:35:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id TAA23040; Wed, 14 May 1997 19:30:54 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 19:30:54 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Chuck Robey cc: "Randy A. Katz" , smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 & smp In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 May 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 1997, Randy A. Katz wrote: > > > Does anyone know if the K6 is fully smp compatible? Please respond, I want > > to buy some but I don't want to have to bring them back... > > Absolutely NOT! For reasons that have recently been beaten to death on > this list, no chips but Intel's will do smp. Grrr.... No chips but intels can do smp on the *current point of time*. The others (AMD and Cyrix) require you to have a chipset with OpenPIC support for SMP. No SMP OpenPIC boards have been announced yet. Sander > > > > > Thanx, > > Randy Katz > > > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD > (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > >