Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:24:33 +0000 From: Jon Mercer <jon.mercer@achean.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Free BSD 5.3 SMP Kernel Message-ID: <1106997873.909.11.camel@odysseus.office.achean.com> In-Reply-To: <1106997177.5843.1.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> References: <1106997177.5843.1.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk>
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I'm just guessing, but it sounds like you come from a Linux background. What you want to do is roll your own kernel by copying the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC file to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYSYSTEMNAME Upper case system names are traditionally used for the kernel config file in unix. HP-UX is the same, IIRC. Edit in: <quote> # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel device apic # I/O APIC </quote> You will also want to change things like ident to MYSYSTEMNAME. There are a plethora of other options to have a play with as well. after you've finished editing go to /usr/src and run make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYSYSTEMNAME then make installkernel KERNCONF=MYSYSTEMNAME then reboot. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html will help you tremendously. Personally I find the whole process much simpler than configuring a Linux kernel. Regards, Jon On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 11:12 +0000, Robert Slade wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Free BSD ( and Linux) and have just setup a rather old > Proliant 5000 as a test machine. It has Quad PII processors and I would > like to make use of them. The Install CDs only come with the 'Standard' > kernel. Looking through the handbook implies that support for multiple > processors in 5.3 was removed due to problems. > > I have seen references to a 5.3 SMP kernal though, is it possible to get > hold of this, or do I have to wait for 5.4 to be released? If so when is > this likely to be released. > > Sorry if this is a simple question. > > Thanks > > Rob > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Achean Ltd http://www.achean.com Jon Mercer jon.mercer@achean.com Director -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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