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Date:      Tue, 17 May 2005 18:08:27 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Jason Lieurance <jason@vipersystems.biz>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.4 SMP
Message-ID:  <20050517180746.V62516@mail.goinet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050517221541.GB1499@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <1649.192.168.1.155.1116349526.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> <20050517221541.GB1499@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Was this a 5.4 change?  Very important since I haven't migrated our 
systems from 5.3 to 5.4 yet.  I have a test build running on a single cpu 
box without smp enabled.  Would have sucked if I hadn't known that ahead 
of time...

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:05:26PM -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a new Dell PowerEdge Dual Xeon 2.8 server and the freebsd install 'sees' 1
>> cpu. It loads the HT right but doesn't see the 2nd cpu at all. I went to rebuild
>> kernel and 'options smp' is not even a choice. I add it along with the others that
>> are mentioned for smp and when I run config it says in effect, 'doesn't understand
>> smp option', meaning it can't be added. Didn't think setting up smp on bsd would be
>> this much trouble.  Any advice? Thanks.
>
> 'options smp' is indeed not the choice :-)
>
> Check the documentation (e.g. handbook, sample kernel configurations)
> for precise instructions.
>
> Kris
>



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