>Hi,
>
>> Does any one know, with certainty, whether Linux supports the AMD Athlon
>> architecture, in terms of its motherboard (SlotA 100MHz) and CPU? I badly
>> want to buy one of these -40C cooled machines, but if no Linux...no go.
>
>The Slot A host bus runs at 200MHz IIRC (v nice), and the memory bus
>100/133Mhz selectable.
Not exactly.
The front side bus of SLOTA only runs at 100MHz. However, unlike SLOT1, it
syncs on the both the rising and trailing edges so it is effectively the same
speed as a SLOT1 bus running at 200Mhz.
>
>This makes for nice scalability when SMP AMD-K7 motherboards appear.
>
and AMD expects the bus speed will scale nicely to 133Mhz then 200Mhz in the
near future :)
See http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/99q3/990809/athlon-12.html for some
details.
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