Re: Different speed CPUs show up as same speed

"Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.smp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Laight <[email protected]> writes:
> > > Wow - differing CPU clock speeds.  In most MP setups I know about that
> > > would result in a lock up at some point in the future.
> 
> There is no real reason for it to lock up.

Yes there is. The locking protocols on the two processors are not
guaranteed to have compatible bugs if the processors aren't the same
stepping. I'm pretty surprised that this is working for him --
everything I know for x86 says if you do SMP, you need identical
processor steppings.

Perry
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