On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Michael Born wrote:
> i plan to buy a dual pentium II board.
> a cheap solution seems to be the gigabyte 686BXD with bx chipset. is this
> a board you would recomment for linux smp usage? is it stable?
I am using it now (after the 686DLX causing me lot of pain) and I am
feeling fine with it. This thing is stable. I am up now and running 19
Days, only rebooting to test the 2.2.x, but they failed in the ISDN Part,
so I am using 2.1.131, which is very stable.
> i read about some APIC things (speedup because the 2nd cpu can handle
> IRQs, too!?) is this somewhere explained? does the 686BXD have such an
> APIC?
look at this:
CPU0 CPU1
0: 86412501 86059658 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 440833 439452 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 216 209 IO-APIC-edge serial
5: 1430023 1416850 IO-APIC-edge soundblaster
8: 1 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
10: 1168525 1181678 IO-APIC-edge HiSax
12: 3722673 3766290 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 764108 764950 IO-APIC-edge ide0
17: 1648386 1649130 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
19: 2436351 2436026 IO-APIC-level eth0
NMI: 0
IPI: 0
Greetings
Robert Sander "Is it Friday yet?"
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