> recently upgrading one of my two CPUs, I found kernel-2.4.2 to be unable to
> handle the situation with 2 different CPUs (AMP = Assymmetric
> multiprocessing ;-) correctly.
"correctly". Intel doesn't support this (mis)configuration:
especially with different steppings, not to mention models.
Alan has, or is working on, a workaround to handle differing
multipliers by turning off the use of RDTSC. this is the right approach
to take in the kernel: disable features not shared by both processors,
so correctly-configured machines are not penalized.
and the kernel should LOUDLY WARN ABOUT this stuff on boot.
regards, mark hahn.
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