intel procressor, the same but different ??? will smp work ???

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Apr 12), jonathan michaels said:
> i was wondering if i could get some answers to a question thats been
> naging me for a while. i am about to build a 2 processor freebsd
> host. it is a supermicro motherbard some 4 or 5 years old in design
> and a pair of intel pentium pro (180 mhz kind) that i've gotten from
> a couple of old p6 hosts that were "retired" because they could not
> keep up the pace with the new microsoft windows incarnation, hence i
> got the leftovers.
> 
> my question is will smp mmode wotk with similar but not identical
> type microprocessors --- in this case pentium pro, 180 mhz, same l2
> cache same every thing i think but .. perhaps different step ??? i
> remember that the step had to be the same or freebsd would really
> bomb badly.

Different steppings are usually okay.  I ran a dual p6 system for a
couple of years with multiple CPUs at different times, all different
steppings.

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	Dan Nelson
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