[ale] Dual Processor Boards & Linux...

[Nick Lucent]

Ive been using this board for about 3 months now w/ 2 233mmx's, it works
great, but the only problem is its picky about ram, I buy my ram from
compusa (kingston) just because I know it works.

Good luck and happy smping

Nick


At 01:58 PM 12/28/98 -0500, 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
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