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Date:      Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:01:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      mjacob@freebsd.org
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/conf GENERIC
Message-ID:  <20061213210116.P26879@ns1.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <4580D3BB.7060504@samsco.org>
References:  <200612140357.kBE3vY0Q053458@repoman.freebsd.org> <4580CD6A.5090802@samsco.org> <20061213201031.T26658@ns1.feral.com> <4580D3BB.7060504@samsco.org>

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> There wasn't a full switchover to SMP at 6.0 because an SMP kernel on a
> UP system incurs a measurable runtime overhead, and we wanted to present
> a system that showed the best of FreeBSD to people who wanted to run it

But David's point is that most AMD64 boxes *are* SMP, not UP. Is that 
wrong?



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