From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 16:53:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F831065672 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 16:53:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jos@webrz.net) Received: from webrz.xs4all.nl (webrz.xs4all.nl [82.95.248.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA388FC12 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 16:53:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jos@webrz.net) Received: from webrz.xs4all.nl (localhost.webrz.net [127.0.0.1]) by webrz.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44AB0FD06A for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 18:54:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.10.10.27] (atlantis.webrz.net [10.10.10.27]) by webrz.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5ADFD061 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 18:54:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <483AEB21.4070100@webrz.net> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 18:53:53 +0200 From: Jos Chrispijn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <483ADEA1.40206@webrz.net> <483AE57B.2000106@magichamster.com> In-Reply-To: <483AE57B.2000106@magichamster.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP @ prometheus.webrz.net Subject: Re: Kernel for Dual Core X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 16:53:55 -0000 Mark Ovens wrote: > What version of FreeBSD? IIRC, in 7.0 GENERIC is SMP-enabled by default? Yep, it is... > As for your kernel config file you should remove/comment out anything > you don't have, e.g. wireless LAN, EISA, USB NICs, RAID, SCSI etc. - > although be aware that USB Mass Storage devices are handled as SCSI so > if you use any of those I'd leave everything in the SCSI Peripherals > section and just remove the SCSI Controllers. What I don't understand: if you do a cdrom install of FreeBSD, the Kernel is based on GENERIC. If I look in GENERIC, most items are not hashed out and there are parts of them that my hardware does not use. And still it works. Why then not use the 7.0 GENERIC for my dual core system? just thinking, Jos