Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:41:44 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "Dorr H. Clark" <dclark@applmath.scu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MP & FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010315094144.W29888@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0103150918460.17514-100000@hpux46.dc.engr.scu.edu>; from dclark@applmath.scu.edu on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:25:13AM -0800 References: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0103150918460.17514-100000@hpux46.dc.engr.scu.edu>
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please don't post to both -hackers and -questions. * Dorr H. Clark <dclark@applmath.scu.edu> [010315 09:26] wrote: > > Hi- > > I have some questions about multi-processing > and FreeBSD. If I am using the wrong list(s) > to ask this, please let me know. All these > questions pertain to the x86 variant of FreeBSD. > > I am interested in booting and running FreeBSD > on a two-processor Tyan motherboard. I would > like to know the following information: > > 1) According to the release notes for 4.1.1, > SMP is not considered a base capability of the OS. > Is there a separate baseline which is an > experimental SMP, or are the changes hidden > behind a particular build flag? If there > is a baseline & it is open, can I find out > a link for downloads? > > 2) What is the earliest revision of FreeBSD > which will boot both CPUs on a dual CPU board? > Are the changes coherently archived, or do > they need to be extracted from CVS somewhere? > > 3) Is there an individual or group leading the > SMP development? What are the issues which keep > this from being a mainstream capability? > I can't promise any useful output from my work > but I'd be happy to help with forward progress > if possible. > > Thanks in advance for any useful information, Either the release notes are written really badly or you're misinterpreting them. SMP has been in FreeBSD since the 3.x release, it's pretty mainstream. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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