[LinuxBIOS] Re: SMP hardware question

[Adam Talbot]

Humm
So AMD will not give out this info easily or free... Then let us find 
it. Test a system in both states  (Single and Dual) and look at the 
differences. See if we can spoof the system into thinking it has two MP 
CPU's when we have two XP's in the box.  The one question would be 
linuxbios support for the Tyan MPX board or something along those lines. 
-Adam

Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> Adam Talbot wrote:
> > Been over two years on this setup, no hardware problems, yet.   The 
> > big question, could this be faked in the bios?
>
> it's a great question. what we could do is dump the model specific 
> registers, on jumpered and unjumpered, and see if all that happens is 
> the hardware jumper turns into an MSR setting ...
>
> the Athlon docs are highly NDA'ed, so this would be hard to find, 
> that's the big issue.
>
> ron

[Ronald G Minnich]

Adam Talbot wrote:
> Humm
> So AMD will not give out this info easily or free.

I don't want people to start beating too hard on AMD on this one. The 
Athlon issue is an old story; the Opteron issue is the new story, and 
AMD has been very open on the Opteron.

So let's not be too hard on them, they've even got a full-time linuxbios 
guy now :-)

ron