Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:51:56 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on a two procesor system
Message-ID:  <200412231451.56908.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <OF9240057E.A9AAF914-ON48256F71.00453B69-48256F71.00454EEA@kchome.net>

index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail

On Tuesday 21 December 2004 07:37 am, KC Somaratne wrote:
> hi,
>
> can it be an odd number of cpu's? like 3 or 5 cpu?

FreeBSD can, but I don't think there are any motherboards out there that do 
that.  I've run the 4-way testbox I have here with 3 CPUs by using a hint in 
-current to disable one of the cpus (hint.lapic.2.disabled=1 or the like).

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve"  =  http://www.FreeBSD.org


help

Want to link to this message? Use this
URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200412231451.56908.jhb>