From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 17:58:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D83B16A41C; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:58:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B6D43D1D; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:58:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.84]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0II500GTP0KV1810@l-daemon>; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:58:07 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0II500HMF0KV04D0@pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca>; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:58:07 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0II50066A0KU09@l-daemon>; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:58:07 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:58:06 -0700 From: Colin Percival To: FreeBSD Stable , freebsd-security@freebsd.org Message-id: <42B06C2E.9030704@wadham.ox.ac.uk> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050406) Cc: Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:58:45 -0000 It sounds like the SMP kernel I provided for FreeBSD 5.3 was quite popular, so I've started building an SMP kernel for FreeBSD 5.4 as well, in addition to the usual GENERIC kernel. To take advantage of this on your FreeBSD 5.4 SMP system, run the following commands as root: # touch /boot/kernel/SMP # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # echo 'bootfile="SMP"' >> /boot/loader.conf and reboot. You should now find that `uname -ri` outputs "5.4-SECURITY SMP". Colin Percival