Topic: AMD Athlon processor support for DUAL processor.

[Lars Kjeldsen]

Hi.

I't would be nice if E-smith support AMD Athlon processors in dual mode.

Have just bought 4 dual processor serveres with AMD Athlon 1900+ processor, my intention was to use them for e-smith, then i discovered that e-smith dit not work i dual mode with AMD Athlon


Regards
Lars Kjeldsen
E-mail: lk@lk-data.com

[Andy MacDonald]

Don't see why it wont.

[Charlie Brady]

Andy MacDonald wrote:
>
> Don't see why it wont.

It won't. The RedHat 2.2.19-7.0.8 kernel did not support more than one Athlon processor, and that's the kernel we currently use.

Regards

Charlie

[Andy MacDonald]

Hmmm. There you go. Thanks for that Big C!
I seem to have just assumed that my beloved e-smith could do ANYTHING.

[Iffiok]

Are there plans to update the kernel to a more up to date kernel, say 2.4.x?

I've had the darndest time trying to get my Intel and SMC and Netgear Gigabit NICs to work with e-smith and most of the time it's because the drivers aren't specifically for 2.2.19.

Otherwise, it's quite possibly one of the best pieces of software I've seen in a decade.

Keep up the good work.

[St.Purple]

Why don't you upgrade your kernel yourself?
I'm planning on upgrading the kernel to some 2.4.x version cause I 'need' some extra video functionality.

Seeing several posts with simalar reactions about waiting for sme-server 5.6 makes me wonder if there are special issues when one's manualy upgrading the kernel

[St.Purple]

Never mind this question.....
I wasn't thinking......

[blinky]

Charlie Brady wrote:
>
> Andy MacDonald wrote:
> >
> > Don't see why it wont.
>
> It won't. The RedHat 2.2.19-7.0.8 kernel did not support more
> than one Athlon processor, and that's the kernel we currently
> use.
>
> Regards
>
> Charlie

Is this problem meant to be gone in version 5.6?
Because it doesn't like the Tyan 2466-4M with Dual AMDs