Dual-core Athlon

Archimedes Gaviola archimedes.gaviola at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 08:22:00 PDT 2009


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Sascha Wildner <saw at online.de> wrote:
> Neil Booth schrieb:
>>
>> I don't believe Dragonfly is using / enabling the second CPU
>> of a dual-core Athlon I bought recently.  At least, top only
>> shows one cpu.  Is there a way to enable it, or can Dragonfly
>> not do that yet?
>
> Hmm, and this is with a kernel that has 'options SMP' and 'options APIC_IO'
> set in the config? Our stock GENERIC is UP only.
>
> Sascha
>
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Yes that's right, as based on my experience with 2-way Quad-Core Xeon
machines on DragonFly, you have to recompile your GENERIC kernel with
'options SMP' to be able to detect multiple core CPUs.

Thanks,
Archimedes





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