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

John Jasen (jjasen1@umbc.edu)
Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:24:59 -0500


On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Andreas Boman wrote:

> Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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.

www.2cpu.com (I think?) had a discussion on this relatively recently. For
the moment, the only difference between MP and XP chips appears to be that
the MP chips are more easily unlocked for overclocking, if I recall the
article correctly.

So, I doubt that the original posters problems are because he's using XP
chips.

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-- John E. Jasen (jjasen1@umbc.edu)
-- In theory, theory and practise are the same. In practise, they aren't.

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