From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 06:11:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E64416A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:11:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E8C43D3F for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:11:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1G6BKLe007359; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:11:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1G6BDQe007352; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:11:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:11:13 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20050216061113.GC2900@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20050208193338.6ee460d9.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215180011.GD38158@dragon.nuxi.com> <4212868E.8080005@transactionware.com> <20050215235358.GC96584@dragon.nuxi.com> <42129E66.5090903@transactionware.com> <2fd864e050215181374d2e2b1@mail.gmail.com> <4212B0BC.5060409@samsco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4212B0BC.5060409@samsco.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: Jan Mikkelsen cc: Mark Magiera cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia chipsets (was Re: Any experience with "AsusA8N-SLi"or"Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:11:22 -0000 On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:32:28PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Astrodog wrote: > > >On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:14:14 +1100, Jan Mikkelsen > > wrote: > > > >>David O'Brien wrote: > >> > >>>>(Incidentally, does anyone know anything about the HP DL385, or the HP > >>>>Opteron blades, the BL25p and BL35p?) > >>> > >>>The *5 machines are opteron versions of the Xeon offerings. See the *0 > >>>Xeon offerings to get a feel for the specs of the box. > >>>I *believe* the DL385 uses the DL380 chassis. > >> > >>I am also interested in the chipsets they use. > >> > >>I believe the DL145 uses the AMD 8000 chipset, but I can't find any > >>information on the newer servers. I was concerned that they might use > >>nVidia chipsets, like the new workstation. However, on rereading the > >>press release, they only tout the nVidia chipset for the workstation, so > >>the servers probably use something much more boring! > >> > >>Regards, > >> > >>Jan. > > > > > >I'm not sure anyone but AMD makes SMP-capible chipsets for Opteron. > > The literature for the Via K8T890 claims that it supports up to 2 CPUs, I have no idea why they make that statment. A 2P K8T890 should look simular: | | |HT[2] |HT[2] | | |--+--| cHT[0] |--+--| | BSP +---------+ AP | |--+--| |--+--| | | |HT[1] | HT[1] | | /-+--\ |VIA | |PCIe| |Tunnel| \---+--/ | | VIA V-Link | /---------------\ |VIA southbridge| \---------------/ Neither of the VIA I/O controllers should have any idea how many CPU's are in the system. > but I've only seen single-CPU boards based on it. In reality, since the > bridge between the northbridge and the CPU is HyperTransport, the > support for SMP comes more from that motherboard maker than from the > chipset maker. s/more/100%/ -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)