> so now down to the question. whats the difference between a dual > athlon xp system and a dual athlon mp system besides a >huge< price > difference? the dual mp motherboards are twice as expensive...as are > the athlon mp processors.
The mp has been configured by AMD to run in a multiprocessing enviornment. That said, the newsgroups are full of both success and failure stories of people trying to use XP's in multiprocessor systems. There exists a trace on the XP's that only the brave cut which enable the multiprocessor features. If you search the newsgroups you will get a more detailed description of that hardware hack, but from a reliability and cost-effectiveness position I would never try it myself (we used to the call stuff like that the "maximum smoke" method of engineering). > also, how supported is this kinda stuff in the linux kernel in redhat The Asus a7m266-d board runs two MP processors and does an excellent job under both updated RH 8.0 and the current RH RawHide release . I couldn't be happier with the systems. Particularly glad that they recognize pci based hardware (for which I am writing a driver) without coaxing. The Asus board is used quite widely with the AMD mp processors because of the ease with which Linux and even Win 2000 work with it. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
