Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From:	Bob Miller <kbob@××××××××××.com>
To:	gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] CPUs reported by /proc in SMP machines and different archs
Date:	Sun, 28 Dec 2003 06:18:11
Message-Id:	`20031228061804.GA5138@jogger-egg.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-dev] CPUs reported by /proc in SMP machines and different archs by Meir Kriheli

1	Meir Kriheli wrote:
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3	> Has anyone seen a multiple cpu machine with different properties for
4	> the cpus inside (clock speed etc) ?
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6	Yes, SGI's old multi-CPU MIPS boxes (either Challenge/Onyx or
7	Origin/Onyx2, I forget which) could be configured with different speed
8	R4000-family CPUs. I used one once to debug a problem in IRIX where
9	some middleware assumed the CPUs were all the same sped. It was a
10	supported configuration from SGI.
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12	Oh, did you mean Linux machines? (-:
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