From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 25 16:19:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA91737B424; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:19:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA55095; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 08:49:21 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 08:49:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: K H Tan Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: SMP kernel for Dual Pentium Xeon Message-ID: <20000826084921.A52219@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <39A60049.F2F1D4F6@pop.jaring.my> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <39A60049.F2F1D4F6@pop.jaring.my>; from netline@pop.jaring.my on Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 01:12:41PM +0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [moved to -questions] On Friday, 25 August 2000 at 13:12:41 +0800, K H Tan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a DELL PowerEdge 6??? with dual Pentium Xeon 550MHz. Can > anybody help me build a kernel to run SMP base on this hardware? Take a look at the online handbook at /usr/share/doc/handbook. If you don't have a machine running, it's also at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/index.html. It tells you how to build a kernel. Specifically, for most SMP motherboards, all you need to do is to uncomment the following commands in the GENERIC configuration file: # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed #options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel #options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O By "uncomment", I mean "remove the comment character at the beginning of the line", so it would end up looking like this: # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O I don't know if there's anything special about the Dells which would require additional parameters. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message