Don't recognizing SMP...
Jase Thew
bazerka at beardz.net
Tue Apr 8 11:47:52 UTC 2008
Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Andrei Kolu <antik at 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.
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