Would this system work correctly with FreeBSD 5.3 ?

[Sten Spans]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, David O'Brien wrote:

>
> There are no heat issues, and the pin-out is identical to single-core
> Opteron CPU's -- 940-pin.  Dual-core CPU's work just fine in AMD's Quad
> reference machine.

That's good news.

>
>
>>> - Quad motherboards:
>>>  It's a shame that tyan connects all
>>>  the pci interfaces on their quad motherboard
>>>  to one cpu. The hp/compaq quad proliant has
>>>  seperate buses to two cpu's for extra bandwith.
> ..
>> Also, I don't believe that PCI buses are connected to CPUs
>> at all.  They are connected via HT-PCI bridges that act as
>> normal HT peers.  Only memory is connected directly to the CPU.
>
> What he is saying is that Tyan put all the PCI-X & PCI controllers on a
> single HT "chain" off of the BSP.  A better design, such as the HP DL585,
> connects its PCI-X controllers spread out over two CPU's (using HT
> links).
>

The new tyan k8we looks pretty good, with all 3 of
the motherboard support chips connected to different
hypertransport links

2200 - pci-e x16, 32bits pci, gigabit, sata
2050 - pci-e x16, gigabit eth
amd 8131 - pci-x, scsi

Let's hope this won't be as troublesome as the nforce3 stuff :)

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Sten Spans

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