From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 15 10:27:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FB137B71A; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:27:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14dcTQ-0006Ci-00; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:27:44 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f2FITvE01037; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:29:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:29:57 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: "Dorr H. Clark" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MP & FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010315192957.B1013@freebie.demon.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from dclark@applmath.scu.edu on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:25:13AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:25:13AM -0800, Dorr H. Clark wrote: > > Hi- > > I have some questions about multi-processing > and FreeBSD. If I am using the wrong list(s) > to ask this, please let me know. All these > questions pertain to the x86 variant of FreeBSD. > > I am interested in booting and running FreeBSD > on a two-processor Tyan motherboard. I would > like to know the following information: > > 1) According to the release notes for 4.1.1, > SMP is not considered a base capability of the OS. > Is there a separate baseline which is an > experimental SMP, or are the changes hidden > behind a particular build flag? If there > is a baseline & it is open, can I find out > a link for downloads? Although there is a lot of new SMP work being done on -current (what will eventually become 5.0) the 4.x runs SMP quite nicely. You will have to build a kernel with SMP support though. Check /sys/i386/conf/LINT for more information. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message