From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 18 19:55:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05307 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:55:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05298 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:55:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA01646; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:25:42 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id OAA05237; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:25:37 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:25:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Pete Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual processors. Message-ID: <19990119142537.D4646@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Pete on Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 10:48:06PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 18 January 1999 at 22:48:06 -0500, Pete wrote: > Hi, > I have: > dual amd 300 > > Runs pretty nice but i realized i386 is 16 bit thus using one processor (i > think, correct me if i'm wrong here). You're wrong. The i386 is 32 bits, and it has nothing to do with the number of processors you have. You seem to be somewhat confused. There are several different concepts here: 1. The processor you're using. The AMD processor you have has the i386 architecture, so you need i386. 2. The number of processors you have. I didn't think that AMD supported dual processors, which makes me wonder what you really have. 3. The compiler, a piece of software which translates source code into object and ultimately executable code. 4. The version of FreeBSD you're using. You don't mention this, but you should have. > Do I need some kind of patch to use both processors? You need FreeBSD 3.0 or later. > How do i Compile the system with*OUT* i386? Buy and alpha and run it on that. Not what you want to do. > so it will use both compilers? There's only one compiler. That's not the problem. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message