Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:54:28 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 & smp Message-ID: <199705141654.AAA12212@spinner.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 May 1997 19:30:54 %2B0300." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970514192656.23029A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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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
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