Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:49:21 -0500 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@culverk.student.umd.edu> To: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intel vs. AMD Message-ID: <00121814492100.14641@culverk.student.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <002a01c0691b$630b91f0$aa240018@cx443070b> References: <3A3C0A8A.D653C28@ifour.com.br> <00121802514101.02709@culverk.student.umd.edu> <002a01c0691b$630b91f0$aa240018@cx443070b>
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On Monday 18 December 2000 12:53 pm, you wrote: > > > > If you need/want a dual proc machine, you must go Intel. > > > > > > If I'm not mistaken, this is a hardware limitation, not a FreeBSD > > > limitation... Dual processor AMD motherboards aren't made yet. It's= a > > > shame nobody will take a risk on a dual-processor AMD server MB. > > > > Where've you been, under a rock ? You heard of the AMD 760MP chipset= , > > which is being tested right now, and will _soon_ be in motherboards > > allowing Dual Athlon Thunderbirds ? Your Dual Thunderbird 1.2 gigahe= rtz > > is > > > on the way. > > However, it may not be supported on FreeBSD right away, if ever, simply > because it uses the alpha EV6 bus and not the intel GTL+ bus. I think t= he > way > of doing multiprocessing is different, and there will have to be code a= dded > to support multiprocessing on an AMD platform > > It might require modification, this is true. But it's completely worth= it, > because AMD's MP platform will use a Point to Point bus protocol for ea= ch > CPU, allowing each CPU full dedicated bandwidth to the bus, rather than > Intel's design where the bus bandwidth is shared among the CPUs. I fully agree with you here, I'm just not sure if it will be supported. I= f it=20 does get support, I'm going to go buy a dual athlon mobo, and ditch the w= hole=20 single proc thing. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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