Re: SMP on AMD K7

Dan Egli (dan@frankenstein-cpu.com)
Sun, 27 Jun 1999 19:46:50 -0600 (MDT)


You will be able to use alpha boards, but you will get better performance
with a board designed for the K7.

On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Dave Broudy wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I was just wondering if anyone had given any thought to a Linux
> implementation of SMP for the K7, or even if anyone is working on it yet?
> I think it might be overly ambitious of me to try and lead the effort
> (I've done some kernel work on the Mach kernel in networking, this is
> certainly more challenging), but I'm interested in contributing to it as
> soon as dual cpu motherboards become available. Perhaps existing Alpha
> 21264 dual MB's can be used for this purpose, as they use the same bus
> protocol.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Broudy dave@broudy.net
>
>
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