On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:40:45PM -0000, Rich Cloutier wrote:
> > The on-board IDE controller for the BP6 doesn't "speak Linux real good,"
> > but for the price, it was worth it. Dual P-IIIs are pretty cheap, now,
> > and I don't see much in the way of the ol' BP6 for sale -- perhaps the
> > P-III and Athlon onslaught has pushed them into oblivion. My dual-Celeron
>
> This is the part that confuses me: the Celeron processor DOES NOT SUPPORT
> SMP.
YES, IT DOES. Just not officially. The only difference between the
celeron and the PII or PIII that it is based on is one pin is cut to
prevent it from doing SMP.
> My 694D and the BP6 manual both state that they support "dual socket 370
> processors" and "Intel Celeron processors." These statements do not
> overlap.
And yet, I assure you, it works just fine. I'm typing this e-mail on
just such a system. And I've compiled my kernel with make -j 2 and
saw for myself the drastic performance improvement.
These boards do some electro-magic to account for the cut pin on the
Celerons. They're forced to say that Celerons are not supported for
legal reasons, but they do, in fact, work very nicely.
O.k., I'm not a hardware guy, so here's the details:
http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/3q99/dual-celeron-retro-1.html
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