Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jun 1999 23:31:56 -0600 (MDT) | From | Dan Egli <> | Subject | Re: SMP on AMD K7 |
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Well... Actually, I don't know about the Alpha->K7 swap, but I do know that K7 boards will be able to accept Alpha processors. So a K7->Alpha swap would be feasable.
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Ryan Moore wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > > Joel Jaeggli writes: > > ->None of AMD's named vendors (asus,gigabyte,fic,biostar) have even > > ->announced products yet. > > > > I have read on internet (www.aceshardware.com I think) that you > > can use existing alpha mb to put K7 into it. > > I would be skeptical this could work because such a motherboard would > probably not have a BIOS that would be compatible the K7 that could boot > anything. > > I'd bet the console program in ROM on any Alpha motherboards would be tied > very closely to the Alpha architecture. > > The linux kernel still needs a BIOS to boot. > > Of course if the booting problem could be overcome, then maybe things > could work. > > -------------------------------- > Ryan Moore rmoore@rmoore.i.seawood.org > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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