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Date:      Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:08:22 +0200
From:      Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org>
To:        Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
Cc:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Freebsd and multi-cpu systems
Message-ID:  <20020821110822.GA74599@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020821104540.GA4700@submonkey.net>
References:  <4.2.0.58.20020820182847.00a02280@192.168.0.25> <20020820222725.GE70340@dan.emsphone.com> <20020821104540.GA4700@submonkey.net>

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On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:45:40AM +0100, Ceri Davies typed:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:27:25PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > 
> > Just add
> > 
> > options      SMP                  # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> > options      APIC_IO              # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
> > 
> > to your kernel and rebuild.  The resulting kernel will only boot on SMP
> > hardware, though, so don't try and boot it on a regular desktop.
> 
> I don't think you're correct that the kernel will only boot on SMP hardware.
> Of course, I've never checked this, so if you have then I'll apologise in
> advance.

Dan is correct. The kernel will panic.

> 
> Ceri
> 
> -- 
> you can't see when light's so strong
> you can't see when light is gone
> 
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