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Date:      Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:43:53 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org, mightymartianca@hotmail.com
Cc:        muc-lists-freebsd-smp@moderators.muc.de
Subject:   Re: SMP on Older Hardware
Message-ID:  <200411231143.53682.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <slrncq4d0a.19b.mightymartianca@aaronclausen.alberni.net>
References:  <slrncq4d0a.19b.mightymartianca@aaronclausen.alberni.net>

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On Monday 22 November 2004 01:46 pm, AC wrote:
> I've got an old dual processor box (two 233mhz Pentiums) running Linux with
> a 2.4.22 kernel.  I was thinking of trying FreeBSD.  Will FreeBSD support
> this older configuration?

It should work fine, but the SMP code in 5.x isn't well tested on certain 
older MP Tables, so there's a chance it might only work with SMP disabled for 
now until I can fix the problems with older MP Tables.

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



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