Re: Pentium II stepping 4 - problems with SMP!

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:06:53 +0000 (GMT)

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> Today I got a new system that is identical apart from the processors
> being of stepping 4 (and a minor BIOS upgrade).
>
> Things work but the second processor is reported as having 2.26
> BogoMips.
> The interactive responce of the system feels jerky but no crashes.
>
> Anyone else seen this?

Yes. Your vendor has a faulty bios that doesnt correctly set the slave CPU
MTRR's. Send it back buy a real one, or if you really want to trust a vendor
who cant read specs try the patch on www.uk.linux.org/SMP

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