Subject: Re: Running SMP port-i386 on dual core AMD64 chips
To: David Brownlee <abs@absd.org>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/10/2005 16:56:03
David Brownlee wrote:
> Will an MP i386 kernel run on a dual core AMD64 box?
>
> We are currently running a heavy Java tomcat appliatoin server
> on Asus A8V Deluxe based machines and looking for some more speed,
> but as its all 32 bit java binaries we'd rather not switch to
> port-amd64 just yet...
>
It should, if you use MPACPI.
- Frank