On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:25:13AM -0800, Dorr H. Clark wrote:
>
> Hi-
>
> I have some questions about multi-processing
> and FreeBSD. If I am using the wrong list(s)
> to ask this, please let me know. All these
> questions pertain to the x86 variant of FreeBSD.
>
> I am interested in booting and running FreeBSD
> on a two-processor Tyan motherboard. I would
> like to know the following information:
>
> 1) According to the release notes for 4.1.1,
> SMP is not considered a base capability of the OS.
> Is there a separate baseline which is an
> experimental SMP, or are the changes hidden
> behind a particular build flag? If there
> is a baseline & it is open, can I find out
> a link for downloads?
Although there is a lot of new SMP work being done on -current (what
will eventually become 5.0) the 4.x runs SMP quite nicely. You will
have to build a kernel with SMP support though. Check /sys/i386/conf/LINT
for more information.
W/
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