Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:47:11 -0600 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: ben@stuyts.nl Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I combine P166 with a P166MMX? Message-ID: <199708310347.VAA18598@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:49:48 %2B0200." <199708301949.VAA03287@daneel.stuyts.nl>
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Hi, --- > 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.) no idea if this will work, good chance it wont... --- > 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? there is no simple answer to this, it is best if they are. anything else would be open to possible problems. Its one of those things you have to try to determine. And with SMP constantly undergoing change, if you have problems you don't know what to point at... -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD
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