Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:22:05 -0700 From: Dave Tweten <tweten@nas.nasa.gov> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <200108310322.f7V3M6177059@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: Message from "Paul A. Howes" <pahowes@fair-ware.com> of "Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:35:05 EDT." <ABENJKDFOLCKBPLGACFDAECODDAA.pahowes@fair-ware.com>
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pahowes@fair-ware.com said: >In the past, I had heard that Linux and FreeBSD didn't work well on >the Athlon processors. Have all of the issues since been resolved? >Now that Tyan has the TigerMP motherboard out for around $200, and the >1.2 GHz Athlon MP chips are around $160, building a multiprocessor >system is looking like a better and better idea. The "multiprocessor" part of this question seems to me to be getting missed in all the "Problem, what problem?" replies. Several moons ago, it was widely publicised that AMD's multiprocessing glue chips would have to use some technology other than what Intel used (patents, don't you know). At about that time, someone on this list said FreeBSD would only work with Intel multiprocessor systems for the time being. Tyan's motherboard uses AMD multiprocessing glue chips. So please don't respond to my message by telling me how well your single processor Athlon works. Who has a functioning dual processor Athlon running FreeBSD? Anybody? -- M/S 258-5 | 1024-bit PGP fingerprint: | tweten@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center | 41 B0 89 0A 8F 94 6C 59 | (650) 604-4416 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 | 7C 80 10 20 25 C7 2F E6 | FAX: (650) 604-4377 We each earn what freedom of speech we defend for those who most offend us. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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