Re: SMP possible with AMD CPUs?

Paul Jakma (paulj@alphyra.ie)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:48:27 +0100 (IST)


On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

> before the althon amd k6's would have used pic design called the open pic
> to do smp... but since nobody implemented the openpic it's kinda hard to
> use it...

grep for openpic in the kernel source. SMP hardware implementing
OpenPIC exists and linux supports it. no-one ever made an /x86/
OpenPIC board.

Also, I'm not sure, but IIRC OpenPIC is pretty much CPU-independent.

> joelja

--paulj

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