Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:27:02 +0100 From: Jase Thew <bazerka@beardz.net> To: Alexander Sack <pisymbol@gmail.com> Cc: Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't recognizing SMP... Message-ID: <47FB5686.7030705@beardz.net> In-Reply-To: <3c0b01820804071145t5bfcd01al55f70ce7f1826b19@mail.gmail.com> References: <d6a9902d0803310231h76134cf7n4b464ba47a8acc8f@mail.gmail.com> <200804011243.06122.antik@bsd.ee> <3c0b01820804071145t5bfcd01al55f70ce7f1826b19@mail.gmail.com>
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Alexander Sack wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee> wrote: >> On Monday 31 March 2008 12:31:49 ??? wrote: >> > I installed FreeBSD 7.0 on HP DL 380. >> > >> > This is a mptable result. >> > >> > > # mptable >> > > Processors: APIC ID Version State Family Model Step >> > > Flags 0 0x14 BSP, usable 6 2 1 0x0381 6 >> > > 0x14 AP, usable 15 2 9 0xbfebfbff >> > >> > 2 way cpus are same as 3.0GHz Xeon CPU. But they have different >> > Family, Step, and Flags. >> > >> SMP does NOT work with cpus with different steppings. You should find other >> matching pair for smp to work. > > Then this needs to be FIXED because MANY OEMs ship mixed stepping > processors as Intel now supports it.... > But does Intel support mixing different families and models? I was under the impression that as long as the families and models were the same, the stepping can be different. Regards, Jase.home | help
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