From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 07:38:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4FD416A4D1 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:38:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.speakeasy.net (mail2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD6143D1D for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:38:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 14650 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2004 15:38:58 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 23 Feb 2004 15:38:58 -0000 Received: from slimer.baldwin.cx (slimer.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.16]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1NFcr29030290; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:38:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:20:57 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <22377.1077547232@www61.gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <22377.1077547232@www61.gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402231020.57480.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: "Ralph S." Subject: Re: Local APIC on FreeBSD/i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:38:58 -0000 On Monday 23 February 2004 09:40 am, Ralph S. wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using FreeBSD for some time but I've never found a way to enable > the local APIC on my system (UP, Intel P3/450 (Katmai)). > What I'd like to know is whether there is a reason for the APIC not to be > used on UP systems (like Linux does, for example) or if not, what I would > need to do to change that. As of 5.2, the 5.x branch will use the local APIC on UP systems. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org