Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:09:08 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Torbjorn Granlund <tege@swox.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Suggestion for FAQ Message-ID: <XFMail.011010170908.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <86669nkr59.fsf@king.swox.se>
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On 10-Oct-01 Torbjorn Granlund wrote: > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > On 10-Oct-01 Torbjorn Granlund wrote: > > I'd suggest that some mention of Athlon SMP support is added to FAQ > > 3.31. Perhaps: > > > > "SMP currently only works for Intel(tm) hardware. FreeBSD 5 will also > > support SMP for Athlon systems." > > FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x already support Athlon systems. It's on the CD case > for > 4.4 and should be in the release notes if not already. Appropriate wording > should probably be added to the FAQ as well. > > You're not reading what I wrote, are you? :-) Um, yes. I did :) > Athlon *SMP* systems are not supported, are they? > While I haven't really tried it, the kernel sources for 4.4 clearly > say only Intel SMP is supported. Yes. I've installed 4.x on an SMP athlon system. It worked great. The Athlon's use a APIC just like Intel systems, so the SMP MD code is the same. Our existing SMP code just works out of the box, whcih is why I said 3.x would probably work fine, too. > FAQ 3.31 is about SMP support. Since not all people read the source, > a mention in the FAQ about Athlon SMP non-support would be a good > idea. s/non-support/support/, but yes I agree that it needs to be mentioned, just that it be mentioned that it works fine. :) > Since you seem to be busy hacking SMPng, perhaps you could answer this > non-FAQ: I am about to get a new Athlon system replacing an older > Athlon system, The new system will use Tyan Tiger 246x. Any chance > for -stable support for such a system (using both processors, that > is!), or do I have to live on the edge and use -current? It should work fine on 4.x if it works on 5.x. The only SMP systems supported on 5.x but not 4.x are SMP Alpha systems (as in the alpha architecture). -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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