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From: Jase Thew <bazerka@beardz.net>
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Cc: Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Don't recognizing SMP...
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Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee> 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.

Regards,

Jase.