From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Dec 28 14:02:35 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA26562 for smp-outgoing; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 14:02:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from clem.systemsix.com (clem.systemsix.com [198.99.86.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA26557 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 14:02:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clem.systemsix.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA20854; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 15:01:39 -0700 Message-Id: <199612282201.PAA20854@clem.systemsix.com> X-Authentication-Warning: clem.systemsix.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 From: Steve Passe To: Randy DuCharme cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting 2nd cpu In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 28 Dec 1996 14:50:00 CST." <32C587F8.41C67EA6@nconnect.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 15:01:39 -0700 Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > I think I'm a bit confused as to what exactly it is I need to enable > SMP. I've gotten the SMP sources via sup (cvsup) as per > http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/smp.html. I've also cvsupped the entire > 3.0 source tree and, while this eliminated the 'bad register name' > errors, and allowed me to build the kernel, rebooting and doing (single, > or multi-user) a sysctl -w kern.smp_active=2 returns "unknown oid > 'kern.smp_active'. Please forgive me if this is a really stupid > question, but... just what tree(s) exactly do I need to grab?? I think you just failed to add "options SMP" to your kernel config file. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | FreeBSD