Re: [discuss] Illumos and AMD Bulldozer

2011-12-08 Thread Hans Rosenfeld
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 03:33:45PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Is Illumos currently known to execute properly on the new AMD Bulldozer-based CPUs such as the Opteron 6200 series? If not, is someone working on it? I would expect that it just works, although some things could be done to

Re: [discuss] Illumos and AMD Bulldozer

2011-12-08 Thread Robar Philip
On Dec 7, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: The desktop Bulldozer CPU performance (AMD FX-8150) seems to be rather lacking, and in fact I see that Intel has posted formal SPEC results for this CPU in order to rub AMD's nose in it. The Opteron 6200 performance seems quite