On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:58:19PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
> > > > Wow - differing CPU clock speeds.  In most MP setups I know about that
> > > > would result in a lock up at some point in the future.
> > 
> > There is no real reason for it to lock up.
> 
> 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 --

That's not true -- there's a large chart available from Intel of which
steppings are known to work together.

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