PIII SMP
John Baldwin
jhb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 30 12:34:23 PDT 2003
On 29-Jul-2003 Terry Lambert wrote:
> freebsd_deamon at gmx.net wrote:
>>
>> dear list,
>>
>> buying two PIII for a dual system ... what do i have to pay attention to
>> (besides the requirements of the M/B)?
>> aka ... are all PIII SMP capable?
>
> You want the stepping to be the same.
>
> You may not be happy with P III's. I'm not sure if the SMP code
> has been changed to handle only the xAPIC now, or not; there was
> a discussion a little while back about supporting more than 16
> CPUs in a machine, which would require this change.
Adding support for xAPICs isn't going to break P3 machines. Less
FUD please. One of my test machines is a dual ppro 200 and although
I haven't booted it in a while it ran current just fine the last
time I tried.
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