[LinuxBIOS] newbee: Pl recommend MBD for dualcore and linuxBIOS

[Corey Osgood]

Darmawan Salihun wrote:
> On 9/16/07, Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Baski wrote:
>>     
>>>     On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:37:40PM -0700, Baski wrote:
>>>     > I need recommendation for Dual-core supported motherboard to try
>>>     > linuxBIOS on.
>>>
>>>     Dual core or dual CPU?
>>>
>>>     Several supported Tyan boards (e.g. s2892) support two CPUs.
>>>
>>>
>>>     //Peter
>>>
>>>     Dual-core,or multi-core, as in AMD X2 or intel duo-core.  Thanks
>>>     in advance.
>>>     - Baski
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Pinpoint customers
>>>
>>>       
>> <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48250/*http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v9.php?o=US2226&cmp=Yahoo&ctv=AprNI&s=Y&s2=EM&b=50>who
>>     
>>> are looking for what you sell.
>>>       
>> There is no Intel dual core (ie dual core p4 or c2d) yet. the mcp55
>> chipset supports dual-core athlon 64.
>>     
>
> I think he means Pentium Dual-Core which is a _dual core_ processor
> based on Core2Duo processor (or Core micro-architecture for that
> matter) with half the L2 Cache Size, it has full functional 2
> cores-per-CPU. This kind processor family is cheaper than Core2Duo,
> reminding me of Celeron ;-).
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Pentium_Dual_Core
> http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentium_dual-core/index.htm
> http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/chart/pentium_dual-core.htm
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Darmawan Salihun
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> -= Human knowledge belongs to the world =-
>
>   

No matter what he meant, the answer is the same: no chipsets supporting
any dual-core intel CPUs are supported in LB at this time ;)

-Corey