Re: SMP possible with AMD CPUs?

[Stephen Torri]

Are the AMD CPUs really geared at the silicon level for true SMP? Some
friend of mine says that just because you can pull the state pin by a
chipset to remove the CPU and start another doesn't say the CPU is really
made for SMP. It just says that they have made it work through the
chipset. I am not sure if the Intel family are really true SMP or not.

I would apprecite some feedback on this.

Stephen

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 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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