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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: AMD's K5 processor in SMP applications?
To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer)
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 09:16:17 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <26056.832905031@palmer.demon.co.uk> from Gary Palmer at "May 24, 96 03:30:31 am"
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> "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote in message ID
> <199605232347.QAA17531@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>:
> > For the above ASUS PCI/X-P54NP4 (X is either E or I depeding on Eisa Or Isa)
> > boards any pair of stepping 5 or higher chips will work fine.
> 
> Translation: you don't need a special `S'lave processor, just another
> ordinary P5? (assuming that the chip hasn't been sat on a shelf for a
> while)

Correct.  And a way to check that it has not been sitting on the shelf
too long is to look at:
CPU: 100-MHz Pentium 815\\100 (Pentium-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x525  Stepping=5
				    ^           ^
from the FreeBSD boot messages.

This is a stepping 5 chip, fine for SMP use....

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