Alexander Sack wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Andrei Kolu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 31 March 2008 12:31:49 ??? wrote:
 > I installed FreeBSD 7.0 on HP DL 380.
 >
 > This is a mptable result.
 >
 > > # mptable
 > > Processors:     APIC ID Version State           Family  Model   Step
 > > Flags 0       0x14    BSP, usable     6       2       1       0x0381 6
 > >    0x14    AP, usable      15      2       9       0xbfebfbff
 >
 > 2 way cpus are same as 3.0GHz Xeon CPU. But they have different
 > Family, Step, and Flags.
 >
 SMP does NOT work with cpus with different steppings. You should find other
 matching pair for smp to work.

Then this needs to be FIXED because MANY OEMs ship mixed stepping
processors as Intel now supports it....


But does Intel support mixing different families and models? I was under the impression that as long as the families and models were the same, the stepping can be different.

Regards,

Jase.
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