6.0 release date and stability

[Mike Tancsa]

At 11:56 PM 17/10/2005, Brett Glass wrote:
>At 08:13 PM 10/17/2005, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>>>One thing we're looking at doing is deploying some single-core AMD64s.
>>>Some of the motherboards use the NVidia NForce chipsets, so we 
>>>need to know if the nve driver works
>>
>>I have seen lots of problem reports with the nve.  A board that 
>>works well for us and fits nicely in a 2U (probably with the right 
>>heat sink a 1U) is the ECS 480M.
>>(http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?DetailID=506&MenuID=90&LanID=0) 
>>
>>It uses the ATI chipset.  Disk and NIC are supported.  Onboard NIC 
>>is a Realtek (rl driver) which is pretty bug / problem free.
>
>Realtek? (Gack... Wheeze....) As I understand it, those are the 
>chips with such a badly thought out DMA architecture that
>data has to be copied between buffers within the kernel even though 
>the chipset does DMA.

The NIC does just fine for most people in most applications. If you 
have the need for network intense apps, put the NIC in of 
choice.  This is just what is built in on the MB.



>>Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>>CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (1999.78-MHz 
>>686-class CPU)
>>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20fb1  Stepping = 1
>>Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
>>   Features2=0x1<SSE3>
>>   AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
>>   AMD Features2=0x3<LAHF,CMP>
>>   Multicore: 2 physical cores
>
>How come the kernel is reporting that an AMD chip has HTT? Is this a bug?

Hyper Transport, not threading.

         ---Mike


>--Brett