Do they still perform better than the regular apic from INTEL though? I
mean it IS an EV6 bus.
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Just curious, but are there plans to support the EV6 bus that the dual
> > athlon motherboards use? I'm not going to buy that kind of system unless
> > FreeBSD 5 will support it.
>
> FreeBSD works just fine on the dual K7 evaluation systems that AMD have
> been shipping around. It seems that they wimped out and licensed Intel's
> APIC design/interface, presumably because Microsoft wouldn't add OpenAPIC
> support to NT, so the boards look just like "ordinary" SMP x86 systems.
>
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