Re: Athlon SMP blues - kernels 2.4.[9 13 15-pre4]

From: Christian Bornträger (linux-kernel@borntraeger.net)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 10:28:24 EST


> > Ehm you know that XP cpu's don't support SMP configuration ?
>
> _Officially_. However afaik the XP cpu's are identical to the MP ones. All
> AMD K7 cpu's 'work' in SMP.

Correct. the EV6-Bus is just a point-to-point connection tho the northbridge.
SO it is a bus that scales very well in SMP-systems.The most important parts
of the SMP-logic are in the northbridge of the chipset, and not in the CPU
(different to the Intel-solution) . Even Durons are SMP-capable.

greetings

Christian Bornträger

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