[LinuxBIOS] linuxbios summit opens with talk by Richard Bruner, AMD Fellow

[Ronald G Minnich]

This should whet your appetite for the 3-day linuxbios summit Oct. 11, 
2005 in santa fe!

For more information, http://lacsi.rice.edu/symposium/

Title:     AMD's Roadmap for Free Firmware (as in Beer)

Speaker:   Rich Brunner, AMD Fellow

Abstract:  This will be a discussion of the upcoming AMD Processor
            roadmap, AMD plans for supporting LinuxBIOS, and AMD's
            directions for the future of firmware.

Speaker BIO:

Richard A. Brunner is the Software Architect for Advanced Micro
Devices' AMD64 Architecture. He is an AMD fellow and is responsible
for driving the technical direction of AMD's AMD64 software strategy
for operating systems, device drivers, compilers, libraries, OS/firmware
interaction, performance optimizations, and 3rd party tools. Richard
led AMD's initial involvement into the Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface (UEFI) forum.

Richard holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor of Science degree in
Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.  He holds
patents in computer architecture and has presented
extensively including Hot Chips, Siggraph, WinHec,
Linux Kernel Summit, Linux World, Ottawa Linux Symposium.

[LinuxBIOS] SMP hardware question

[Adam Talbot]

Currently I have a dual proc Tyan MPX system running two athlon XP's 
that I have converted to MP by closing a bridge on the top of the CPU's.

So that little trick changed the name of the CPU, but what makes an XP 
CPU not capable of running in an SMP setup?  Is this a factor of the 
BIOS or is there something more?
-Adam Talbot

[LinuxBIOS] SMP hardware question

[Li-Ta Lo]

On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 14:39 -0700, Adam Talbot wrote:
> Currently I have a dual proc Tyan MPX system running two athlon XP's 
> that I have converted to MP by closing a bridge on the top of the CPU's.
>
> So that little trick changed the name of the CPU, but what makes an XP 
> CPU not capable of running in an SMP setup?  Is this a factor of the 
> BIOS or is there something more?
> -Adam Talbot

I guess it is the MP/APIC bus? The single processor XP doesn't have the
bus to talk to each other.