From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 11:24:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF3616A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:24:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ajax.achean.com (ajax.achean.com [212.87.82.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1F243D39 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:24:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jon.mercer@achean.com) Received: from odysseus.office.achean.com (dsl-217-155-191-93.zen.co.uk [217.155.191.93]) by ajax.achean.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0TBOjPj002155 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:24:46 GMT (envelope-from jon.mercer@achean.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])j0TBOYGn008034 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:24:34 GMT (envelope-from jon.mercer@achean.com) From: Jon Mercer To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <1106997177.5843.1.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> References: <1106997177.5843.1.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Achean Limited Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:24:33 +0000 Message-Id: <1106997873.909.11.camel@odysseus.office.achean.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO, TO_ADDRESS_EQ_REAL autolearn=no version=3.0.2-achean_mailfilter_v1.00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2-achean_mailfilter_v1.00 (2004-11-16) on ajax.achean.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/687/Thu Jan 27 07:14:20 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on ajax.achean.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Free BSD 5.3 SMP Kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:24:50 -0000 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: # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel device apic # I/O APIC 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------