Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264826AbTFBTAv (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:00:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264840AbTFBTAv (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:00:51 -0400 Received: from www.wireboard.com ([216.151.155.101]:60638 "EHLO varsoon.wireboard.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264826AbTFBTAu (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:00:50 -0400 To: joe briggs Cc: Alan Cox , LKML Subject: Re: impact of Athlon's slower front-side-bus (FSB) References: <200306020947.44520.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com> <1054565258.7494.34.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <200306021436.24029.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com> From: Doug McNaught Date: 02 Jun 2003 15:14:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: joe briggs's message of "Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:36:24 -0400" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1026 Lines: 18 joe briggs writes: > Can I do this with the 2.4.19 kernel (debian)? The cards in question are quad > bt878 frame grabbers. How specifically can I tie a particular bt878 to a > particular processor on the dual athlon platform? I don't think so but building a kernel package with an -ac kernel (or any other version) is dead easy on Debian--don't let that stop you. > One last question, given the slow FSB and the fact that 2 uP's are > groping for the same memory space and that each bt878 is dma'ing its > data to memory, is the SMP still a better idea than uni-processor? If there's any way to actually test both configurations, I'd do so--there are enough variables here that random handwaving arguments aren't going to be really useful. -Doug - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/