Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:35:59 +0100 From: "dirard m. mikdad" <d.mikdad@flash.a2000.nl> To: "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@columbus.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP support in FreeBSD 3.3 (Release)October 1999 Message-ID: <38423AEF.3DB73711@flash.a2000.nl> References: <3841604B.BEF0BA17@flash.a2000.nl> <384162CD.3FD2BAF2@columbus.rr.com>
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"Danny J. Zerkel" wrote: > "dirard m. mikdad" wrote: > > > I am running Red Hat Linux 6.1 on an Asus P2BDS motherboard with onboard > > an adaptec 7890 u2w scsi controller chipset. > > My question is: Does FreeBSD 3.3 (october 1999 release) support this > > board? And I install FreeBSD, does it detect both processors by default > > or should I compile a customized kernel with smp support enabled? > > Works very nicely here. But, be sure to upgrade you BIOS to 1011. Some > earlier BIOSes (BIOSi?) had problems with the statclock. > > You must compile a customized kernel. This what mine includes for SMP: > > # Mandatory: > options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel > options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O > > # Optional, these are the defaults plus 1: > options NCPU=2 # number of CPUs > options NBUS=3 # number of busses > options NAPIC=1 # number of IO APICs > options NINTR=24 # number of INTs > > -- Danny J. Zerkel > dzerkel@columbus.rr.com Hi, Thanks again. cheers, Dirard M. Mikdad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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