IBM 750GX SMP on Marvell Discovery II or III?

Huailin Chen chen_huailin at yahoo.com
Wed May 12 03:23:18 EST 2004


> My experience has been that MPC750s work in a SMP environment on a 60x
> bus. Maybe I was just lucky? The way I read the manual, they should
> work with a proper memory controller.

750 MEI protocol does NOT support SMP well. Sure, you
are right. It works, but not that good.

Ideally, MESI + MPX Bus is the best one for SMP under
PPC arch. That's why need go to G4+ GT 64360.

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