From: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
To: joe briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: impact of Athlon's slower front-side-bus (FSB)
Date: 02 Jun 2003 15:14:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3brxgl2bh.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: joe briggs's message of "Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:36:24 -0400"
joe briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com> writes:
> Can I do this with the 2.4.19 kernel (debian)? The cards in question are quad
> bt878 frame grabbers. How specifically can I tie a particular bt878 to a
> particular processor on the dual athlon platform?
I don't think so but building a kernel package with an -ac kernel (or
any other version) is dead easy on Debian--don't let that stop you.
> One last question, given the slow FSB and the fact that 2 uP's are
> groping for the same memory space and that each bt878 is dma'ing its
> data to memory, is the SMP still a better idea than uni-processor?
If there's any way to actually test both configurations, I'd do
so--there are enough variables here that random handwaving arguments
aren't going to be really useful.
-Doug
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-02 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-02 13:47 impact of Athlon's slower front-side-bus (FSB) joe briggs
2003-06-02 14:47 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-02 18:36 ` joe briggs
2003-06-02 19:14 ` Doug McNaught [this message]
2003-06-04 17:15 ` OT: " William Gallafent
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