6.0 release date and stability

[Brett Glass]

At 08:13 PM 10/17/2005, Mike Tancsa wrote:

>>One thing we're looking at doing is deploying some single-core AMD64s.
>>Some of the motherboards use the NVidia NForce chipsets, so we 
>>need to know if the nve driver works
>
>I have seen lots of problem reports with the nve.  A board that 
>works well for us and fits nicely in a 2U (probably with the right 
>heat sink a 1U) is the ECS 480M.
>(http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?DetailID=506&MenuID=90&LanID=0) 
>
>It uses the ATI chipset.  Disk and NIC are supported.  Onboard NIC 
>is a Realtek (rl driver) which is pretty bug / problem free.

Realtek? (Gack... Wheeze....) As I understand it, those are the 
chips with such a badly thought out DMA architecture that
data has to be copied between buffers within the kernel even though 
the chipset does DMA.

>Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (1999.78-MHz 
>686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20fb1  Stepping = 1
> 
>Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
>   Features2=0x1<SSE3>
>   AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
>   AMD Features2=0x3<LAHF,CMP>
>   Multicore: 2 physical cores

How come the kernel is reporting that an AMD chip has HTT? Is this a bug?

--Brett