From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 15:10:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA16484 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:10:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA16462 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:10:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) id SAA17354; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 18:10:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 18:09:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Yves Lepage cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MP? In-Reply-To: <199603282118.QAA04673@maelstrom.cc.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Yves Lepage wrote: > Hi all, > > Does FreeBSD support multiple CPU's yet? Any plans? Foreseable future? > > (talk about quick questions ;-)) > Hey Terry...you should do a weekly cron message out to -questions for this *grin* Yves...Terry Lampert has been working on MP support, but it is not inherent in the standard kernel, you have to get various patches for it to work. I'm not sure how far along it is (ie. I know Terry had it up on 2 CPUs...not sure about more then that). I've also heard that someone at Intel is working with Terry on this...but that is unsubstiated, in that I believe Terry mentioned it once, but I could be misquoting. Also, I *believe* you have to be running one of the older -current kernels for the patches to work. Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc