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Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 18:20:36 -0400 (CLT)
From: "Daniel Molina Wegener" <dmw@unete.cl>
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Subject: Re: Kernel build question (options and so forth)
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El Jue, 17 de Mayo de 2007, 15:11, Andrew Falanga escribió:
> Hi,

   Hello,

>
> In addition to my quest to upgrade this 6.0-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE-p4,
> I have a question about the kernel and SMP.  This system has two
> processors and I want to make sure I'm going to build an SMP capable
> kernel, especially, considering I'm going from 6.0 to 6.2.  I managed
> to find a past posting to this list saying that from 6.2 on, SMP is
> detected and used by default; will this happen for me?  Should I edit
> /usr/src/sys/<arch>/conf/MYKERNEL with something like "options SMP" or
> whatever it is?  (I'm only guessing here, and I want to make sure I
> get an SMP kernel.)

   Review the GENERIC and NOTES kernel configs. The options for SMP kernels
in i386 arch are commented.

>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
> [SNIP]
>

Regards,
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