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Date:      Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:52:27 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Justin Hopper <jhopper@bsdhosting.net>
Subject:   Re: No SMP on Compaq ML350 with FBSD 5.3-RE
Message-ID:  <200506291452.28244.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1120068059.27704.144.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <1120068059.27704.144.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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On Wednesday 29 June 2005 02:00 pm, Justin Hopper wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm sure this problem would have been found before, but so far, I can't
> see any trace of it in searches.
>
> I just picked up a Compaq ML350 for free from a liquidator, runs fine it
> seems, and has dual P-II 600MHz CPUs.  The BIOS post shows the two CPUs,
> as does the BIOS "System Info" function.  However, a fresh install of
> FreeBSD 5.3-RE shows only a single CPU, and utilities like "top" reflect
> this as well.  Attached is the dmesg output.  Since this is such old
> hardware, I'm really surprised that it doesn't just simply "work".
> Thoughts?

Did you add 'options SMP' to your kernel config?  I think that GENERIC in 5.x 
has 'options SMP' disabled by default.

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