From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 28 12:05:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA5916A420; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:05:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (jojo.ms-net.de [84.16.236.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A129643D72; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:05:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (p54A5F4B2.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.244.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0SBuN44049501; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:56:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (Magellan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0SC55rm060041; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:05:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:05:06 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20060128130506.5f15e598@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <43D8E73E.4050103@samsco.org> References: <200601260957.k0Q9vCUn054132@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060126101706.GJ36965@submonkey.net> <43D8E73E.4050103@samsco.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.10; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: Murray Stokely , Ceri Davies , cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/releases/6.1R todo.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:05:13 -0000 On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:14:06 -0700 Scott Long wrote: > The next step would be add an mptable parser to sysinstall (not as hard > as it sounds, probably about 100 lines of code at most) and have > sysinstall either automatically rename /boot/kernel.SMP to /boot/kernel > as needed, or give the user the choice on renaming. The only problem > here is that most MPTables don't recognize hyperthreading. So either we > live with that, or we take extra steps to parse ACPI tables. Since we > do have ACPI on by default, this also isn't as hard as it sounds. Since we don't enable the use of HT per default for security reasons (or did this change without me noticing this?), we don't need to detect HT in this case. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 WL http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/registry/1FZ4DTHQE9PQ8/ref=wl_em_to/