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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com>
Subject: Re: Portupgrade, -CURRENT & SMP
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Scott Long wrote:

>> Which, yes, is quite annoying and, IMHO, is a pretty critical bug that 
>> needs fixing.  It makes SMP on -CURRENT nearly unusable if you want to 
>> regularly update your ports.
>>
>> Adam
>>
> 
> Well, you can disable SMP at boot via
> 
> set hw.apic.0.disable=1
> 
> But yes, it's some sort of a bug and it needs to be fixed.  I'll track 
> the PR.
> 
> Scott
> 

Scott,

I checked and doing several searches through the sysctl options do not 
see any such option as you list above, > set hw.apic.0.disable=1

I am running amd64, is this perhaps just an option for i386?
I do see a kern.smp.disabled: 0, would this instead be for amd64?

Exactly how on boot do I break in to enter this option?
Or do I set it, then boot?
Then afterwards reset then boot again?

			Thanks
			Sean