From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Nov 4 15:34:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ab.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com [24.64.2.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22B015022 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:34:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vipw@home.com) Received: from fatman ([24.66.193.63]) by mail.rdc1.ab.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with SMTP id <19991104233231.OZBV10032.mail.rdc1.ab.home.com@fatman>; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:32:31 -0800 Message-ID: <004501bf271d$09728c20$0564000a@fast.b0rk.net> From: "Adam Serediuk" To: "Scott Myron" Cc: References: <382203FA.4F4740B4@hsonline.net> Subject: Re: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD? Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 16:33:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Scott, the processors do NOT have to be the same stepping. it's just general practice to match the stepping of the cpu's when possible. I believe this has to do with the possibility of the clock rate varying slightly from stepping to stepping although I am not sure. ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Myron To: Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 3:08 PM Subject: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD? > Hello. I want to get a Dual celeron going with freebsd as the OS. My > question is, do the chips have to have the same stepping? I read > somewhere that if the chips do NOT have the same stepping, it screws up, > > and causes blue screens in NT, and i was wondering if anything similar > happens in FreeBSD. I figure it'll be difficult to get 2 celerons with > the same stepping. I am just planning on getting 2 retial ppga celeron > 433's. I read somewhere else that "it was just a myth and the processors > > do NOT have to have the same stepping." so i'm just searching for the > truth. Thanks. > > > Scott > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message