Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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chipguy,

Presumably a one link Opteron has its one link on a specific set of pins. If it is kaput then having a working link on another set of pins, or perhaps not bonded out at all, isn't going to help.

Why?

Programable chips - reconfiguring the internal wiring by writing data to a programable port - is used in many applications. There are numerous ways to do this! It seems that to be able to design an internal HT to a logical block of pins, and then assign that logical block to physical pins by initializing from a port, should not be a hard spec.