Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:13:27 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to detect SMP-capable machines? Message-ID: <200311061013.hA6ADRYU073490@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20031104234848.0317e2c0@popserver.sfu.ca>
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Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> 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.
I'm aware that -current kernels are supposed to support SMP
and UP without change, but we cannot use -current. We have
to use -stable. So that's not an option, I'm afraid.
I have now built an installation CD which uses the exit code
of mptable to decide whether to install an SMP or UP kernel.
It _seems_ to work on those machines on which I've tested it
so far. Can somebody confirm that a -stable SMP kernel will
boot and run on all hardware on which mptable returns 0?
Regards
Oliver
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