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RE: [Xen-users] AMD processors with Pacifica and Xen

To: "Bas Mevissen" <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] AMD processors with Pacifica and Xen
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:46:26 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Bas Mevissen
> Sent: 08 February 2006 10:42
> To: Petersson, Mats
> Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] AMD processors with Pacifica and Xen
> 
> >>
> >> 1) Are Pacifica AMD's going to be sold soon and will they 
> fit on this 
> >> board? The announcements about Pacifica-containing CPU's 
> talk about 
> >> 940-pin socketed CPU's.
> >
> > I'm not sure what sockets will be supported by SVM 
> (formerly Pacifica) 
> > capable CPU's. I tried to find a publicly available roadmap that 
> > mentioned SVM, but none available at the AMD web-site that I could 
> > find in my first few attempts of googling/searching AMD site.
> >
> > I think if you use Google, you'll find quite a few sites 
> that mention 
> > when we'll have new processors available, but it's not 
> quite so easy 
> > to know which ones are right... ;-)
> >
> 
> Hmmm. Difficult. Xen already supports the Intel VT extensions 
> and it seems that Intel VT-capable CPU's are available right 
> now for some series. It looks like it is a year to early to 
> buy a new server :-(

Xen's unstable tree supports SVM too. So release 3.0.2 should contain
SVM-support. 

--
Mats
> 
> 
> Thanks for your comments,
> 
> Bas.
> 
> 
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