Quoting Jase Thew, who wrote on Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 12:27:02PM +0100 .. > Alexander Sack wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Andrei Kolu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Monday 31 March 2008 12:31:49 ??? wrote: > >> > I installed FreeBSD 7.0 on HP DL 380. > >> > > >> > This is a mptable result. > >> > > >> > > # mptable > >> > > Processors: APIC ID Version State Family Model Step > >> > > Flags 0 0x14 BSP, usable 6 2 1 0x0381 > >> 6 > >> > > 0x14 AP, usable 15 2 9 0xbfebfbff > >> > > >> > 2 way cpus are same as 3.0GHz Xeon CPU. But they have different > >> > Family, Step, and Flags. > >> > > >> SMP does NOT work with cpus with different steppings. You should find > >> other > >> matching pair for smp to work. > > > >Then this needs to be FIXED because MANY OEMs ship mixed stepping > >processors as Intel now supports it.... > > > > But does Intel support mixing different families and models? I was under > the impression that as long as the families and models were the same, > the stepping can be different.
I think it is not as black/white as that: some steppings are OK in a mix, others are not. -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
