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From: Christian =?iso-8859-1?q?Borntr=E4ger?= 
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To: Andreas Boman <aboman@nerdfest.org>, arjanv@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Athlon SMP blues - kernels 2.4.[9 13 15-pre4]
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:28:24 +0100
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> > Ehm you know that XP cpu's don't support SMP configuration ?
>
> _Officially_. However afaik the XP cpu's are identical to the MP ones. All
> AMD K7 cpu's 'work' in SMP.

Correct. the EV6-Bus is just a point-to-point connection tho the northbridge. 
SO it is a bus that scales very well in SMP-systems.The most important parts 
of the SMP-logic are in the northbridge of the chipset, and not in the CPU 
(different to the Intel-solution) . Even Durons are SMP-capable.

greetings

Christian Borntr?ger

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