Blaine Lupulack wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Dave Cinege wrote:
> >I have a dual PPRO 180 with custom 90MHz bus. (Understand this greatly
> >increases my performance over a 180 @ 60 x3) The AMD 400 is getting pretty
> >cheap
> >now and I'm thinking about upgrading. (kernel compiles too slow, etc..)
> >
> >Anyone wish to comment on whether this is a worth while upgrade?
> >
> >I really don't want to give up SMP. I am still boycotting PII's, so don't even
> >mention them. If by chance a Dual AMD mobo ever appeared, lemme know...
> >
>
> I recently read that the AMD K7 ( planned release 2nd quarter '99 ) will
> support SMP.
They will, and it should be "relatively" or "completely" transparent to
the current Intel SMP as AMD has extensive cross-licensing with Intel.
>
> I read that to mean that AMD currently doesn't support multiple processors.
No Intel compatible vendor currently supports SMP [other than Intel, of
course ;-) ]
>
> But as to kernel compiles, my AMD K6-2 300 compiles my 2.0.33 kernel in 2:57 (
> for make dep ; make clean ; make zlilo ). That's ~1:30 faster than my PII-266.
Many of us are AMD fans, and are looking forward to the K-7 (which by
the way has been tested by AMD for Linux compatibility).
>
> That could be due to the 1MB cache vs 512KB, or due to the faster integer and
> memory management of the AMD chip.
All of the above.
>
> But when the K7 comes out, I'll be first in line here.
After me.
>
> Blaine Lupulack
Cheers,
Lyle
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