Re: SMP possible with AMD CPUs?

From: Johannes Erdfelt (johannes@erdfelt.com)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 21:16:41 EST


On Thu, Aug 02, 2001, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > the combination of the athlon mp and the amd 761 chipset will do
> > multiprocessor support without trouble... you will want to use 2.4 becuase
> > lots of devices on the boards aren't supported by 2.2...
>
> Athlon SMP will actually not always work with 2.2. Quite a few folks
> reported problems and patches for 2.2.20pre fixes that and broke other
> stuff so got reverted.
>
> 2.4 seems to do the job nicely

I sent you a new patch which fixes the problem.

Here's the original with the new patch as well.

JE





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