Don't recognizing SMP...
Wilko Bulte
wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Tue Apr 8 12:10:56 UTC 2008
Quoting Jase Thew, who wrote on Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 12:27:02PM +0100 ..
> 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.
I think it is not as black/white as that: some steppings are OK in a mix,
others are not.
--
Wilko Bulte wilko at FreeBSD.org
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