From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 4: 7:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C3137B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 04:07:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2543D43E6E for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 04:07:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd-q@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7LB8NIK074700; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:08:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stable@ei.bzerk.org) Received: (from stable@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7LB8MfG074699; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:08:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:08:22 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: Ceri Davies Cc: Dan Nelson , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Freebsd and multi-cpu systems Message-ID: <20020821110822.GA74599@ei.bzerk.org> References: <4.2.0.58.20020820182847.00a02280@192.168.0.25> <20020820222725.GE70340@dan.emsphone.com> <20020821104540.GA4700@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020821104540.GA4700@submonkey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:45:40AM +0100, Ceri Davies typed: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:27:25PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > Just add > > > > options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel > > options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O > > > > to your kernel and rebuild. The resulting kernel will only boot on SMP > > hardware, though, so don't try and boot it on a regular desktop. > > I don't think you're correct that the kernel will only boot on SMP hardware. > Of course, I've never checked this, so if you have then I'll apologise in > advance. Dan is correct. The kernel will panic. > > Ceri > > -- > you can't see when light's so strong > you can't see when light is gone > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message