Ready for dual core Opterons?

Wilko Bulte wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Mon Apr 11 11:03:05 PDT 2005


On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:58:50AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote..
> Brett Glass wrote:
> > According to the article at
> > 
> > http://www.techweb.com/wire/hardware/160503169
> > 
> > AMD is going to be launching dual core Opterons this month.  Will FreeBSD 5.4
> > be ready to handle them?
> 
> My understanding is that dual core opterons just look like multiple
> processors to the operating system, so there should be no problems.
> 
> For that matter, my understanding is that dual core opterons *are*
> separate processors, connected only via their normal external
> interface.

Ask David (obrien) I suppose.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org


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