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Date:      Thu, 5 Sep 2002 19:32:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Arnvid Karstad <arnvid@karstad.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD, SMP and Stepping.
Message-ID:  <20020905193128.U33007-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020905174810.1EC8.ARNVID@karstad.org>

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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Arnvid Karstad wrote:

>
> On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:28:42 -0700 (PDT) - Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote:
> > Its probably a part of Intel's and your motherboard spec actually, but
> > generally SMP is only supported on CPUs of the same family and model.
>
> *nod* but then it would be similar on all os'es? ;) It does work on
> Linux Kernel 2.2 but not 2.4. Havent bothered testing WinNT or 2000 .

Different OSs have differing timing requirements and so forth... in the
end its an unsupported configuration and any functionality may be purely
conicidental. :-)

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org


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