From owner-freebsd-smp Wed May 14 10:03:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA20436 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 10:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spinner.DIALix.COM (spinner.dialix.com [192.203.228.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA20408 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 10:03:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spinner.DIALix.COM (localhost.dialix.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.DIALix.COM with ESMTP id AAA12212; Thu, 15 May 1997 00:54:29 +0800 (WST) Message-Id: <199705141654.AAA12212@spinner.DIALix.COM> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Narvi cc: Chuck Robey , "Randy A. Katz" , smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 & smp In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 May 1997 19:30:54 +0300." Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:54:28 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Narvi wrote: > > > 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 wan t > > > 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 I might add that there is no technical reason why support for OpenPIC cannot be done, it's more a question of developer resources and time than anything. A division of effort is the last thing we need right now... We need to get the support for the relatively common APIC systems up to top notch first. Cheers, -Peter