Re: SMP possible with AMD CPUs?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 01:30:19 +0100 (BST)

> the combination of the athlon mp and the amd 761 chipset will do
> multiprocessor support without trouble... you will want to use 2.4 becuase
> lots of devices on the boards aren't supported by 2.2...

Athlon SMP will actually not always work with 2.2. Quite a few folks
reported problems and patches for 2.2.20pre fixes that and broke other
stuff so got reverted.

2.4 seems to do the job nicely

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