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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