new cpu upgrade

Rajinder Yadav devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Mon May 9 03:00:53 UTC 2011


On 11-05-08 08:43 PM, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> The only thing that one really needs to worry about is if you were
> moving between X86/amd64/arm/ia64 architectures. You should have no
> problem at all with this upgrade. Even windows is *usually* ok with
> new-cpu-same-board upgrades.
>
> If your using the same motherboard, all is well. A new motherboard might
> have a different sound/LAN/network/sata controller, but so long as
> there's drivers in the mainline kernel you're good.
>
> If you have a new mobo, you may need to nuke
> /etc/udev/rules.d/persistent* to allow the new NIC to work as eth0, etc.

yes its just a cpu swap, just as i figured but thought i'd ask, thanks!
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