From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 9 12:16:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09407 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 12:16:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA09397 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 12:16:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA01285; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 12:16:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606091916.MAA01285@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: does freebsd support SMP? To: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 12:16:10 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Nathan Stratton" at Jun 9, 96 01:48:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > DOes freebsd supoort SMP? Yes. There is a working SMP /usr/src/sys code tree that can be SUP'ed or CTM'ed. You do a normal CVS checkout, then you add: options SMP # enable SMP options NCPU=2 # or whatever max you want To your normal -current config file, config, makedepend, make, and install the SMP kernel. Then rebbot. You are running SMP. You should be running -current already, then join the SMP mailing list before doing this. You can join the list with the following shell command from the system where you want to get the mail: echo "subscribe freebsd-smp" | mail majordomo@freebsd.org (just like any other FreeBSD mailing list -- maybe we need shell scripts to ship with the system: "subscribe" and "unsubscribe". 8-)). You can ask about the SUP and CTM marker addresses on the SMP list, once you are on it. An alternate method, if you have a freefall account, is to FTP the CVS tree from /f/smp. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.