SMP boot option?
Matthias Schmidt
matthias at dragonflybsd.org
Wed Oct 6 06:54:50 PDT 2010
* 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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