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Subject: Re: Procedure for upgrading CPU
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> I'm thinking of upgrading the CPU in my machine running 6.0-RELEASE with an
> SMP kernel.
>
> Is it a matter of powering down the machine, swapping chips and powering 
> up?

if anything more - then maybe BIOS upgrade if this won't work with new 
chips.

for FreeBSD - nothing at all. same devices, same king of CPUs, no 
compiling needed