John Baldwin wrote:
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
On 31-Jul-2003 Terry Lambert wrote:
It wasn't clear to me at the time whether the discussion was
geared toward having both APIC and xAPIC support, or only xAPIC
support.
Both, the xAPIC is mostly backwards compatible. The extension of
the ID field just uses bits that are reserved (and
On 29-Jul-2003 Terry Lambert wrote:
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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
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
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.
And I'm running 3 Dual PIII servers
15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
...
John Baldwin wrote:
On 29-Jul-2003 Terry Lambert wrote:
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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
I have 5.1-RELEASE running on a dual PIII/850 SM P6DGH; lots of APIC errors
on boot, but no obvious effects. I was able to complete a complete
make buildworld ... mergemaster cycle, plus rebuild ports (including
OpenOffice) with no errors.
mptable won't completely run, but, again, no obvious
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?
thanks
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?
thanks
Make sure the stepping is identical.
Some motherboards require Tualatin's to be able to run dual, others
On 29.07.2003 10:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?
thanks
Maybe you want to take a look into
http://www.bnv-bamberg.de/home/ba3294/smp/index.htm
