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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:38:34 -0800
From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
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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