From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 19 12:56:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shadow.spel.com (elevator.cablenet-va.com [208.206.84.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A122150EE; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:56:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mturpin@shadow.spel.com) Received: from localhost (mturpin@localhost) by shadow.spel.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07882; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 15:04:55 GMT (envelope-from mturpin@shadow.spel.com) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 15:04:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Turpin To: Alexander Langer Cc: Ludwig Pummer , Pat Lynch , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP and celerons? In-Reply-To: <19990619100442.A654@cichlids.cichlids.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Alexander Langer wrote: > Yes, but they work with such a slot1 adapter which helps the Celeron > by doing the required stuff (afaik) > > Alex > The celerons have the necessary pins to support multi-processing, but intel lists them as reserved in the data sheets. I do know that MSI (MicroStar) has released a PPGA->Slot1 converter with a jumper that connects the pins. All you have to do is use two PPGA celerons and two of these converters and it works. There is some more information available(part numbers and a picture) at http://www.cpu-central.com/ Before these you had to do some soldering on the boards to get it to work. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message