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Post #6 by alk
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryPowerPC
Post DateMon, 11 May 2009 - 02:56
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/dual-8500.17342/
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PPC Linux or BSD would be fully dual processor aware.
Are you sure? The last time I ran a Linux (YDL 3) on a dual 604e Mac, the second CPU was not active. Mac OS is required to get that second CPU active. This is in contrast to dual G4 processors which use a different architecture that Linux can enable.

A while back, Danamania said the same thing - that Debian, out of the box, works on dual 604e CPUs. Which seems strange because I thought that out-of-the-box support for PCI-class Macs was pretty much non-existant in ANY Linux distro. YDL, which is built specifically for PowerPC, doesn't even support those Macs anymore - since YDL 3, you have to figure out how to install it yourself.

Peace,

Drew

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