From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 5 19:35:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14C1337B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 19:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A0E43E65 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 19:35:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BCE1772FC5; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 19:32:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B938E72D9E; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 19:32:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 19:32:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Arnvid Karstad Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD, SMP and Stepping. In-Reply-To: <20020905174810.1EC8.ARNVID@karstad.org> Message-ID: <20020905193128.U33007-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Arnvid Karstad wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:28:42 -0700 (PDT) - Doug White 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 . Different OSs have differing timing requirements and so forth... in the end its an unsupported configuration and any functionality may be purely conicidental. :-) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message