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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 2000 18:31:25 +0100
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net>, Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE <FreeBSD-STABLE@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SMP oddity
Message-ID:  <v04220808b4f96dae1f7e@[195.238.1.121]>
In-Reply-To: <20000318092355.H56986@beastie.localdomain>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003180133260.95728-300000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> <20000318092355.H56986@beastie.localdomain>

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At 9:23 AM -0800 2000/3/18, Brian O'Shea wrote:

>  This behavior is specific to SMP kernels.

	Okay, even to this non-programmer, that source seems pretty 
clear.  So, can anyone tell me why it is this way?  I think it's 
highly unlikely that a machine could successfully get past POST if 
the two CPUs weren't running at the same speed, so I don't think it 
can be a mismatch issue, can it?

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   These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
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