Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 19:04:18 -0700 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> To: <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: MP Generic Kernel Message-ID: <01e501c0364c$3a89d5e0$aa240018@vista1.sdca.home.com> References: <200010061652.KAA14529@berserker.bsdi.com>
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I'm wondering if we can't include a generic MP kernel in the FreeBSD releases. Basically, on a fresh install of a dual cpu box, we find that we have to compile the kernel and/or world on a single cpu the first time through. It seems a simple enough matter to include kernel.smp or something to that effect in the standard ISO/CD release so that a knowledgable FreeBSD user/admin could interrupt the boot process, and boot kernel.smp. Perhaps even the disk version could include a choice of a standard boot floppy or an SMP boot floppy. It's not as though releases are every other day, so it doesn't seem that this would be all that great of a chore, and it would allow those of us who admin alot of SMP boxes to save us a single cpu buildworld. The only reason I suggest this is that it is my understanding that with the 4.1/4.1.1 releases one must buildworld before compiling kernel. On the older systems, one would simply compile an SMP kernel and reboot and be up and running dual cpus for the buildworld. Anyhow, just a suggestion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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