[ale] Dual Processor Boards & Linux...

[Tony Scalzitti]

Jay Finch wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
>         Okay -- I'm thinking seriously about making the plunge into SMP(?) land,
> and I was wanting some advice on Dual Processors.
> 
> I'm looking at a Dual Pentium (Not Pro or PII) board, called the Tyan
> S1564D Tomcat IV Dual Pentium 75-233 MHz System Board
> (http://www.tyan.com/html/body%5Fs1564d.html) ... Does anyone have any
> experience with these boards?
> 
> How hard is it to get Linux to support 2 processors?  (I know you have to
> enable the support when you compile the kernel, but is there more?)
> 
> The reason I ask is to get all the information I can (especially about
> good/bad things regarding this motherboard), and I can't seem to find a
> Multi-processor FAQ.
> 
> Thanks!
> Jay
> -----

Jay,

I have had a Tomcat II (75-200) for sometime, there was a problem with
the II in that the L2 cache only supported 64MB.  Anything above 64MB
was accessed directly, no cache.  Other then that it has been a great
board for about three years.

-T