Free BSD 5.3 SMP Kernel

[Jorn Argelo]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:12:57 +0000, Robert Slade wrote
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to Free BSD ( and Linux) and have just setup a rather old
> Proliant 5000 as a test machine. It has Quad PII processors and I would
> like to make use of them. The Install CDs only come with the 'Standard'
> kernel. Looking through the handbook implies that support for 
> multiple processors in 5.3 was removed due to problems.
> 
> I have seen references to a 5.3 SMP kernal though, is it possible to 
> get hold of this, or do I have to wait for 5.4 to be released? If so 
> when is this likely to be released.
> 
> Sorry if this is a simple question.

You'll have to recompile the kernel with SMP support. If you don't want to 
compile your own kernel, you can use SMP, located in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. 
If you don't have that, you don't have your kernel sources installed.

See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.
html for more information. Do read every page of that chapter.

Jorn

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Rob
> 
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