On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 02:54:17PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> In fact most pentium era SMP boards cannot support MMX processors, and many
> processors of that era have both SMP certified and non SMP certified CPU
> variants. The SMP certified ones have to be similar steppings in some cases
> to work.
>
> Life in the PII era is way way simpler.
>
> Alan
Huh? The only constraint i know about is that "older" Dual-Pentium boards
can not run 233 MHz cpus because Intel changed something. You need to add
a pull-up resistor. The SMP/non-SMP thingy was AFAIK restricted to the
original P5 cpus and never an issue with P54C and P55C.
Dominik
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