Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:38:34 -0800 From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU> To: ray@redshift.com Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 kernel config file question Message-ID: <20050331183834.GA1119@ack.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20050331030434.00a8f798@pop.redshift.com> References: <3.0.1.32.20050331030434.00a8f798@pop.redshift.com>
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On Mar 31, "ray@redshift.com" wrote: > Hi, > > I'm setting up FreeBSD 5.3 for the first time on an Tyan dual opteron board. > I've done plenty of i386 installs, but this is the first on AMD. Anyway, I'm > stripping down the kernel for a re-compile and I was wondering if anyone either > had a sample config file they could send over and/or if someone could let me > know what they are running for these lines? > > For the CPU/machine stuff, does this look okay (i.e. is K8 the correct option > for the Opteron 246's?) > > machine amd64 > cpu K8 > ident AMD64 > > And for dual CPU's, I use this on i386 - is it the same for AMD? > > # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed > options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel > device apic # I/O APIC I wrote to the list a few months ago about apic: apic is implicit for the AMD64 arch. It was incorrectly carried over to the config and doc files from x86. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=125292+0+archive/2004/freebsd-amd64/20041212.freebsd-amd64 Mike
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