Re: Tyan S2464 (K7 SMP) + EMU10K1 hardlocks

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 18:44, Andre Bonin wrote:
> Creative Labs warns that it's sblive series of cards aren't compatible 
> with SMP systems.  Though i've had the S2460 motherboard and the only 
> trouble i have had was that EAX didn't work properly.  A friend of mine 
> has an sblive with a dual celeron and he also has had this problem of 
> deadlocks with the SBLive.  The audigy however is fully compatible.

On Linux at least I've never had a problem with the SB Live since the
SMP bugs in earlier 2.4 trees got fixed (and they were kernel bugs). I
can well believe the SB emulation magic doesn't work with old games in
SMP mode but we don't drive it in any emulation mode nor need to