From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 18:27:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ilstu.edu (mail.ilstu.edu [138.87.4.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858EA15089 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:27:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fordp@guide.chi.il.us) Received: from zaphod (south212028.resnet.ilstu.edu [138.87.212.28]) by mail.ilstu.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id UAA11214; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 20:26:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19991006202750.0169dd78@pop.interaccess.com> X-Sender: fordp@pop.interaccess.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 20:27:50 -0500 To: itetcu@go.ro From: Ford Prefect Subject: Re: [Q] FreeBSD on dual PII Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19991006231445.569A714EA4@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From the FAQ: SMP is supported in 3.0-STABLE and later releases only. But you will need to rebuild the kernel. The info you need is as follows. (From the GENERIC kernel, uncomment as needed) # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed #options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel #options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O # Optionally these may need tweaked, (defaults shown): #options NCPU=2 # number of CPUs #options NBUS=4 # number of busses #options NAPIC=1 # number of IO APICs #options NINTR=24 # number of INTs See: http://lxr.linux.no/freebsd/source/i386/conf/GENERIC#L52 or http://lxr.linux.no/freebsd/source/i386/conf/LINT#L87 or just /sys/i386/conf/LINT and /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC -Steve At 02:11 AM 10/7/99 +0200, you wrote: >Hi, > >Does FreeBSD run on a Dual PII system ? >If yes, do I have to rebuild the kernel (and how exactly, as i don`t >remember seeing in LINT anything about that). > >Thanks, >Ionut >Ion Mihai Tetcu >itetcu@go.ro >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >Get a free e-mail and 10M webspace at http://www.home.ro/ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > *=====================================================* \ Ford Prefect Ahead of my time. \ \ fordp@guide.chi.il.us but only by a week. \ \ homepage.interaccess.com/~fordp \ \ \ \ ((In esperanto where available)) \ *=====================================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message