SMP kernel but no SMP detected on Tyan S2515

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Quoting John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>:

> On Thursday 17 November 2005 12:23 am, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>> John Baldwin wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 16 November 2005 02:17 am, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>> >>This has me puzzled:
>> >>
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>>
>> One other point, the cpus are both PIII SL52R (1000/256/133/1.75V), but
>> they don't appear to be a matched pair (one is made in Malay, the other
>> somewhere else - the heatsink is over it...) would this matter?
>>

FWIW the place of creation won't be the issue, but rather the sSPEC
( SL52R, in your case). This determines what vocabulary (instruction set) the
CPU posesses and any other (mis)features that were incorporated into 
it, as well
as date inception. So, so long as the two CPU's carry the same sSPEC, 
are fully
functional, and are compatible with the BIOS/ motherboard, FreeBSD (SMP) will
find/ suppoprt them. Just thought I'd throw that in. :)

Best wishes.

>
> It depends on your BIOS.  It generates the table, so it may choose to not
> provide the table if it thinks your CPUs are incompatible.
>
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