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From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
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Subject: Re: Freebsd and multi-cpu systems
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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.

Ceri

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