Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:56:10 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Jase Thew <bazerka@beardz.net> Cc: Alexander Sack <pisymbol@gmail.com>, Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't recognizing SMP... Message-ID: <20080408115610.GA36603@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <47FB5686.7030705@beardz.net> References: <d6a9902d0803310231h76134cf7n4b464ba47a8acc8f@mail.gmail.com> <200804011243.06122.antik@bsd.ee> <3c0b01820804071145t5bfcd01al55f70ce7f1826b19@mail.gmail.com> <47FB5686.7030705@beardz.net>
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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@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@FreeBSD.org
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