C.Bäckström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As everyone else is asking for support for their respective chipset, I
> thought I might aswell. So, has there been anything done on the
> AMD762(SMP)?
This is being worked on. Ron and I have gotten some documentation from
AMD and there is finally now some available on the 761 publicly
available.
>From what I can tell so far the 761 & the 762 are the same except for
MP issues.
> Not that I have one, as it isn't released yet, but it should
> be close to the AMD761 (yes, that's probably naive, I know), and that's
> out. I'm only asking because we're getting funds to start up a x86 cluster
> here. And when looking at price/performance ratios, the Athlon comes out
> waaaaay ontop. It will hopefully be the same for the SMP, dependent on the
> mobo providers "price strategy", of course. It would be kinda nice with
> dual cpu nodes, because then I can justify the price for SCSI drives. Also;
> I saw that the Athlon L2 cache is not supported, which is a bit worrying.
> Is that something that is going to change? Or has it already changed? The
> post was a couple weeks ago. I have already bugged AMD about the L2 cache
> thing, but they haven't replied yet. Cheeres,
As far as the L2 cache I'm not certain, where we stand. Ollie is the
only one who has brought up a board with an AMD processor yet. Looking
at the docs it may only be a real issue with the slot processors, but
I haven't had a chance to experiment. Hopefully soon.
Eric
