> Yes, but they still haven't done a SMP system. IMHO they should get off
> their butts and design their own SMP system (which Linux could support by
> adding AMD specific code) that should be superior to that of Intel's
> (which still doesn't scale to more than 4 Intel processors unfortunately)
> SMP solution. I'd definitely buy into that. Correct me if I'm wrong
> though.
Well, in fact AMD a long time ago developed their own APIC standard
called OpenPIC. This standard is supposedly better than the Intel
counterpart, eventhough I myself can't comment on that - I've only read
the OpenPIC standard.
Well, to make this short. Nobody supported this standard (in terms of
motherboards) and I don't know if AMD still manufacture it's CPUs
according to this standard (or if they ever have!). Well, you probably
already knew all of this!!
Yours Thomas
Thomas S. Iversen
zensonic@diku.dk
Dept. of computer science - copenhagen, denmark.
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