'device apic' required for SMP kernel?

Marc Fonvieille blackend at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 18 16:52:36 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:39:41PM +0200, Ernst de Haan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> According to the Handbook, section 8.4:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ 
> kernelconfig-config.html
> 
> the 'device apic' option is required for SMP-kernels.
> 
> However:
> 1. the GENERIC kernel config does not include this option;
> 2. nor does the SMP kernel config;
> 3. my system works with a kernel config based on GENERIC+SMP, without  
> this options, so it seems to be optional.
>

Which version of FreeBSD are you running?  cause this line is present on
both -STABLE and -CURRENT GENERIC configuration files.

-- 
Marc



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