Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:42:52 +0200 | From | Philipp Rumpf <> | Subject | Re: P2 & P3 dual-CPU? |
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> Intel has very cleverly discontinued the PII/450, leaving me with the > following options:
0) get a PII/450 somewhere, maybe swapping it against a PIII/450
> 1) installing a PII/400. I assume that the 4x frequency multiple is > hard-coded onto the processor cartridge somehow. Has anyone tried > running two CPUs at two different speeds in the same box > simultaneously?
This might work, but I am not too sure it would.
> 2) installing a PIII/450. I doubt there is any electrical compatibility > problem, but I wonder if there is some trick to getting Linux to > treat the PIII as a PII (i.e. it would be really bad if the kernel > tried to enable MMX on both CPUs). Has anyone tried running two
As long as you don't try to use KNI, there should not be a software problem with this. The differences between later PIIs and PIIIs are minimal anyway so it should work.
I'm not sure what you want to say about MMX.
Philipp Rumpf
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