Date: Sat, 30 Aug 97 21:49:48 +0200 From: Ben Stuyts <benst@terminus.stuyts.nl> To: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can I combine P166 with a P166MMX? Message-ID: <199708301949.VAA03287@daneel.stuyts.nl>
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Hello, I'd like to add a second cpu to my current motherboard (a GA-586DX) and start playing with SMP. It now has a Pentium 166 MHz on it, and these are a bit hard to find now. 166 MMX's are no problem though. Is it possible to mix a standard Pentium with an MMX one? FreeBSD won't be using the MMX features anyway, I guess. (Or will it in the future? Maybe in the X server, or some kind of multimedia app? I guess having one std and one MMX cpu might be confusing then.) For that matter, can I put in a 200 MHz MMX, in the assumption that I will replace the old std 166 also with a 200 MHz MMX somewhere in the future? Need the two cpu's be of the same mask revision? Thanks, Ben
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