Re: SMP possible with AMD CPUs?

[Alan Cox]

> 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.

Both the Athlon and Intel chips are definitely designed to do SMP well.