According to the article at http://www.techweb.com/wire/hardware/160503169 AMD is going to be launching dual core Opterons this month. Will FreeBSD 5.4 be ready to handle them? Also, will the "nve" driver (which is needed to run the Ethernet interface on AMD-based boards with NVidia chipsets) be in 5.4? --Brett Glass
Brett Glass wrote:> According to the article at > > http://www.techweb.com/wire/hardware/160503169 > > AMD is going to be launching dual core Opterons this month. Will FreeBSD 5.4 > be ready to handle them?My understanding is that dual core opterons just look like multiple processors to the operating system, so there should be no problems. For that matter, my understanding is that dual core opterons *are* separate processors, connected only via their normal external interface. Colin Percival
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:58:50AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote..> Brett Glass wrote: > > According to the article at > > > > http://www.techweb.com/wire/hardware/160503169 > > > > AMD is going to be launching dual core Opterons this month. Will FreeBSD 5.4 > > be ready to handle them? > > My understanding is that dual core opterons just look like multiple > processors to the operating system, so there should be no problems. > > For that matter, my understanding is that dual core opterons *are* > separate processors, connected only via their normal external > interface.Ask David (obrien) I suppose. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org