imx6 SMP enabled by default

[Tom Everett]

I enabled the SMP flag in revision 262666 and voila, I have 4 cores!  The
boot log is here

http://files.khubla.com/freebsd-wandboard/FreeBSD-armv6-11.0-IMX6-r262666.txt

and the build is here

http://files.khubla.com/freebsd-wandboard/FreeBSD-armv6-11.0-IMX6-r262666.img.gz



On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> As of r262695 option SMP is turned on in the IMX6 kernel config.  I also
> added a new tunable so that if you have trouble that might be related to
> SMP you can "set hw.ncpu=1" at the ubldr prompt or in /boot/loader.rc
> and it will boot with a single core (you can set any number from 1 to
> the number cores the chip has).
>
> Also, FYI, you can put "set autoboot_delay=2" in /boot/loader.rc (or any
> number you're happy with).  You can hit a key at any point while it's
> loading the kernel and it will give you the interactive prompt before
> booting, so a short delay works fine.
>
> -- Ian
>
>
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