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  From: Dan Shearer <dan@tellurian.com.au>
  To  : Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
  Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:29:12 +0930 (CST)

Re: AMD SMP

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Wednesday, 23 May 2001 at 16:57:22 +0930, Richard Russell wrote:
> > Hi y'all
> >
> > Anyone know of the status of AMD SMP? Will it be supported by default in
> > Linux, or will there be some extra development needed? What about mobos? I
> > can't find any... I assume they aren't available yet... the only chipset I
> > can see talked that supports AMD SMP is AMD's 760MP, but I see no mobos with
> > it...
> 
> Don't know about Linux, but it worked pretty much out of the box on
> FreeBSD.

3 or 4 months ago Mandrake demonstrated a dual SMP AMD on prerelease
hardware as I recall.

AMD are being very careful to involve the free OS community in new
developments as far as I've seen.

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