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Date:      Wed, 5 Nov 2003 01:01:56 +0100
From:      Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de>
To:        Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to detect SMP-capable machines?
Message-ID:  <200311050102.03549@harrymail>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20031104234848.0317e2c0@popserver.sfu.ca>
References:  <5.0.2.1.1.20031104234848.0317e2c0@popserver.sfu.ca>

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On Wednesday 05 November 2003 00:54, Colin Percival wrote:
> At 00:46 05/11/2003 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> >Now the question:  What's the best way to determine an
> >SMP-capable system, i.e. a system which is able to run
> >an SMP kernel?
>
>    Install 5.1-CURRENT (or at least boot a 5.1-CURRENT filesystem), which
> (I believe) now supports both UP and SMP in the GENERIC kernel, due to
> recent changes by jhb.

ACK

But I don't belive this solves Olivers problem since he's working with 4.9
Well, APIC was mandatory for SMP, but can't help much!

Just wanted to confirm that SMP kernels run fine including APIC on UP machi=
nes=20
with -current some hours ago!

=2DHarry

>
> Colin Percival
>
>
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