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Subject: Re: Dual core AMD64
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Mike wrote:
> How might one enable to use of both cores in RELENG_5 or RELENG_6?

Dual core AMD processors look just like normal SMP systems to FreeBSD.
6.0-BETA1 has SMP support enabled by default (we might revisit this
before the release), so it will Just Work assuming that you have a
BIOS that supports dual-core systems.

Scott