From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 9:11:19 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 09:11:18 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73D2137B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:11:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx ([24.6.244.187]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001221171116.XJVJ20559.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@laptop.baldwin.cx>; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:11:16 -0800 Content-Length: 1043 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <115D8A4017F9D3119D4D00104BD28DDA225889@EMAIL> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:11:21 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "Rieck II, David" Subject: RE: SMP-GENERIC Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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