Re: Different speed CPUs show up as same speed

Rick Kelly <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.smp
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Perry E. Metzger said:

>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.

Sequent got away with it on their 386 boxes, but the 486 machines did
use uniform processor speeds, as I remember.

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