SMP boot option?

Tyler Mills tylermills at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 09:32:30 PDT 2010


I'll give this a try in my VM.

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Matthias Schmidt
<matthias at dragonflybsd.org> wrote:
> * Michael Neumann wrote:
>>
>> For x86_64, it gets completely rid of compile time APIC_IO and
>> introduces a loader tunable hw.apic_io_enable. Right now it does not
>> compile non-SMP, but I will fix that later. Also i386 is not yet
>> supported, again, it's pretty easy and straightforward to bring in i386
>> support.
>
> Wow!  I'd love to see this for i386 as well ;)
>
>> If we commit this to master, I'd like to see the distribution shiped
>> with an SMP kernel as well!
>
> Yep, but we should stay for 2.8 with the default and commit that stuff
> after the release.
>
> Cheers
>
>        Matthias
>



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