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From: Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@stud.ntnu.no>
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Subject: Re: NUMA and Dual-Core Support
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On man, mar 13, 2006 at 11:40:17 +0800, Liu, Robin wrote:
> BTW, could anybody tell me which is the oldest version of FreeBSD to support the dual-core processor?
The oldest version of FreeBSD to take use of SMPng would be 5.0, but you
wouldn't want to run anything below 5.5/6.0 for this right now anywaw.

Other than that, the dual-core processors should be visible as two processors to
the OS, so it should work on older versions such as 4.x as well.
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Mvh Ulf Lilleengen