From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 4 11:19:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA16492 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 11:19:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA16448 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 11:19:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA10336; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 14:17:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 14:17:04 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost To: Darren Reed cc: perlsta@sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP-able chips? In-Reply-To: <199801040916.EAA10365@po2.glue.umd.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Darren Reed wrote: > In some mail from Chuck Robey, sie said: > > > > On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know if any other x86 chip will work in a 2 processor > > > enviornment? > > > like the AMD K6 or the Cyrix M2 > > > > I can't answer the second question, but as to the first, all motherboards > > available today use the Intel Apic design, not the OpenApic design that > > the cpus other than Intel implement. The meaning to that is, if it's not > > an Intel CPU, you're not going to run SMP with it. > > Does this include th ASUS motherboard which takes the CPU daughterboards ? As far as I am aware, there is not one single motherboard on the market today that implements the OpenApic. I haven't done a thorough check recently, but understand that the OpenApic and the Intel Apic aren't compatible ... if you were a motherboard manufacturer (this only applies to SMP) which would YOU build in? There was a nice paper from IBM that described the differences, but I lost it 3 months back when my main system dived on me. > > Darren > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------