FreeBSD is now self-hosting on the UltraSPARC T1

[Eric Anderson]

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> 
> On May 21, 2006, at 7:54 PM, m m wrote:
> 
>> While
>> on topic, the Opterons aren't SMP either, and neither are the
>> ht-Xeons...
> 
> I would like t\o hear the rational for the Opterons (presumably the dual 
> core ones) not being SMP.  They have two independent operating cores in 
> one physical package.  Who cares how it is packaged?  I would tend to 
> agree with you on the ht-Xeon in terms of general descriptions.  I do 
> not know as well how the ht-xeon work as I don't use any but it seems to 
> me that the "SMP" moniker, at least in FreeBSD, relate to how things are 
> scheduled.
> 
> Btw, Opteron MB with a single dual-core ship get a BIOS report on Boot 
> of having 2 CPUs...

Careful - two cores doesn't mean two caches, and isn't always just 'two 
cores glued into one package'.


Eric


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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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