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Date:      Thu, 05 Sep 2002 17:49:31 +0200
From:      Arnvid Karstad <arnvid@karstad.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD, SMP and Stepping.
Message-ID:  <20020905174810.1EC8.ARNVID@karstad.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020904172718.L27143-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20020904202358.F72C.ARNVID@karstad.org> <20020904172718.L27143-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:28:42 -0700 (PDT) - Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote:
> Its probably a part of Intel's and your motherboard spec actually, but
> generally SMP is only supported on CPUs of the same family and model.

*nod* but then it would be similar on all os'es? ;) It does work on
Linux Kernel 2.2 but not 2.4. Havent bothered testing WinNT or 2000 .


> At least recently, Intel says that all steppings of a particular model are
> SMP-interoperable, but not of differing models.

Hmm I'm tempted to try.

-arnvid-

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