Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:11:21 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Rieck II, David" <rieck@brodart.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: SMP-GENERIC Message-ID: <XFMail.001221091121.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <115D8A4017F9D3119D4D00104BD28DDA225889@EMAIL>
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On 21-Dec-00 Rieck II, David wrote: > Where can I download SMP-GENERIC? I read > http://people.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/gestarted.html. In the document it says > there is a SMP-GENERIC in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. I do not have it. I read > the FreeBSD manual and noticed I did not have any source install so I ran > /stand/sysinstall -> Configure -> Distributions -> src -> sys. I now have > the GENERICE but not the SMP-GENERIC. I am running FreeBSD version 4.2. > Where can I get the SMP-GENERIC kernel to compile? It's easy to create, just copy GENERIC to SMP-GENERIC, and uncomment the options 'SMP' and 'APIC_IO'. There are comments in GENERIC that explain this: # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed #options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel #options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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