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Re:AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchm... by Nyandalized on Thursday August 08, 2019 @04:00AM (#20642671)
>You can't physically swap out a processor while the system is booted and you can't swap a virtual processor either.

I think you can do that on multisocket systems:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/core-api/cpu_hotplug.h...

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Re:AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchm... by Filligree on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:37AM (#20643274)
If the hardware supports it, yes, but only with basically the same type of processor.
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