From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 16:10:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED48916A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:10:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from tx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk (tx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4227B43FAF for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:10:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from scan1.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.166] helo=localhost) by tx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AHBG7-0007UX-IH for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:10:51 +0000 Received: from rx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.165]) by localhost (scan1.oucs.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.166]) (amavisd-new, port 25) with ESMTP id 28681-04 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:10:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.161.253]) by rx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AHBG7-0007UM-4v for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:10:51 +0000 Received: (qmail 15363 invoked by uid 0); 5 Nov 2003 00:10:51 -0000 Received: from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk by gateway by uid 71 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (sweep: 2.14/3.71. spamassassin: 2.53. Clear:. Processed in 3.497849 secs); 05 Nov 2003 00:10:51 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk via gateway X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.16 (Clear:. Processed in 3.497849 secs) Received: from dhcp1131.wadham.ox.ac.uk (HELO piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk) (163.1.161.131) by gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 00:10:47 -0000 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20031105000648.03108ce0@popserver.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@popserver.sfu.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:10:45 +0000 To: Harald Schmalzbauer , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <200311050102.03549@harrymail> References: <5.0.2.1.1.20031104234848.0317e2c0@popserver.sfu.ca> <5.0.2.1.1.20031104234848.0317e2c0@popserver.sfu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: How to detect SMP-capable machines? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:10:54 -0000 At 01:01 05/11/2003 +0100, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: >On Wednesday 05 November 2003 00:54, Colin Percival wrote: > > 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. > >But I don't belive this solves Olivers problem since he's working with 4.9 I'm not aware of any limitation which would make it impossible to construct a CD which boots a 5.1 kernel but installs a 4.9 world onto a system. Obviously, you can't do this with the standard release CD, but the standard release CDs aren't going to be much use anyway, since they don't include SMP kernels. Colin Percival