[101203] in RedHat Linux List
RE: cpu benchmarks under linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Fishwick)
Wed Nov 25 06:26:39 1998
From: Chris Fishwick <rimmer@calvin.nu>
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:57:06 +0000
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> I may be wrong, but believe that the AMD K6 chips do not support SMP.
This is sort of correct.. It is not that the AMD K6 chips don't support
SMP, it is more that they support a different 'sort' of SMP.
There are actually 2 different 'sorts' of SMP, the one that Intel use on
their chips (support for which is availble on Dual Processor m/boards),
and the one that everyone else (Cyrix, AMD etc) uses on their chips.
Its been a while since I looked at this, but from memory, the Intel
standard is inferior to the one that everyone else uses, thus, no one else
wants to use it. There were rumors a while back that AMD was working in
conjunction with a m/board manufacturer to release a board that was
capable of using the AMD's in a dual processor configuration, but I am not
sure what ever became of this.
Regards
Chris
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