From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Jul 24 19:07:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA08196 for smp-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 19:07:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (adm@icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA08190 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 19:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) id VAA29480; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 21:06:57 -0500 (CDT) Posted-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 21:06:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma029454; Thu, 24 Jul 97 21:06:40 -0500 Received: from localhost (mestery@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id VAA12639; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 21:06:40 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: mestery owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 21:06:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Kyle Mestery To: Jaye Mathisen cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody know kernel tweak stuff for a Digital HX or ZX P6? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > I have a 4 processor P6 box I was thinking of converting from Solaris to > FreeBSD-SMP, but am not intimately familiar with the hardware enough to > know what the various kernel options (APIC related I guess) should be > set to. > Here are the options for SMP: options SMP options APIC_IO options SMP_AUTOSTART Those should get you going. Keep in mind that SMP support is only in 3.0-current. It is stable as of yesterday, but I know Steve is working on doing some changes on the locks, so it has the potential to become unstable in the coming weeks. Kyle Mestery StorageTek's Network Systems Group 7600 Boone Ave. N., Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 mesteka@anubis.network.com, mestery@winternet.com