Dual core AMDs (was Re: [Gllug] Recording Ogg streams?)

[John Hearns]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 20:41 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:20:59PM +0100, John Winters wrote:
> > Do you need a new motherboard for a dual core processor, or will they go
> > in an existing one with an appropriate socket?  Does the BIOS need to be
> > multi-core aware?  Does Linux just see the system as having two CPUs?
> 
> Many of the existing AMD-64 motherboards ought be able to have Dual core
> CPUs dropped into them, but you'll almost certainly need a BIOS upgrade. 
> You also may need a kernel update, because with the dual cores they changed
> the way the BIOS enumerates CPUs, and there's some other oddities which
> can cause stability problems with kernels pre-dating dual core availability.
I should have said.
We are running a 2.6.11 kernel.

I'm looking forward to seeing what 2.6.12 does, as I gather there is
work on NUMA in that kernel.

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