Re: [PATCH] AMD SMP capability sanity checking.

Jeff Golds (jgolds@resilience.com)
Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:33:35 -0800


Dave Jones wrote:
>
> Burning out a fuse to make the switch from MP->XP may affect more
> than just the cpuid capabilities. The fact is _we don't know_
>

Right, so why assume it doesn't work?

> I've yet to see a socket 370 dual processormotherboard that
> I'd put faith in for a mission critical environment.
> "I had no problems" means _nothing_ when theres as few as 1 other
> user reporting SMP related problems with the same setup.
>

People with "true" SMP CPUs can have problems as well. Does this mean
SMP CPUs are not SMP capable? If only one person is having problems,
chances are there's a problem someplace. Could it be a faulty
motherboard? Mismatched CPUs? Bad memory? Bad CPU? Bad power
supply? There's an awful lot of variables here.

-Jeff

-- 
Jeff Golds
Sr. Software Engineer
jgolds@resilience.com
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