Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:29:57 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: "Dorr H. Clark" <dclark@applmath.scu.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MP & FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010315192957.B1013@freebie.demon.nl> 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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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:25:13AM -0800, Dorr H. Clark 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? Although there is a lot of new SMP work being done on -current (what will eventually become 5.0) the 4.x runs SMP quite nicely. You will have to build a kernel with SMP support though. Check /sys/i386/conf/LINT for more information. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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