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From: "Lanny Baron" <lnb@freebsdsystems.com>
To: "Francisco Reyes" <lists@natserv.com>
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Subject: Re: Looking for FreeBSD basic SMP info
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:19:06 -0500
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I would think a lot of people would just vi /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and see
what it shows.

# To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed
#options        SMP                     # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
#options        APIC_IO                 # Symmetric (APIC) I/O

Regards,
Lanny

----- Original Message -----
From: "Francisco Reyes" <lists@natserv.com>
To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc: "FreeBSD SMP" <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: Looking for FreeBSD basic SMP info


> On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Dan Nelson wrote:
>
> > > At http://people.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/getstarted.html there are
mentions
> ......
> > Those are all obsolete now.  The kernel detecs the correct values at
> > boot time. All you need to enable SMP are:
> >
> > options         SMP                     # Symmetric MultiProcessor
Kernel
> > options         APIC_IO                 # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
>
> Who could we contact to try and update the URL above so other people don't
> have the same problem?
>
>
>
> > The 4.* smp manpage is pretty much useless, but the one in 5.0 does
> > mention these options.
>
> Yep.. I did notice the 4 manpage has close to nothing.
> Is there any other SMP specific info in terms of kernel settings
> or programs?
>
>
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