svn commit: r41672 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq

[Hiroki Sato]

Eitan Adler <eadler at FreeBSD.org> wrote
  in <201305190102.r4J12Uls013461 at svn.freebsd.org>:

ea> Author: eadler
ea> Date: Sun May 19 01:02:30 2013
ea> New Revision: 41672
ea> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41672
ea>
ea> Log:
ea>   Improve the smp-support question wording for the modern era.  Indicate that certain ARM cpus may have issues.
ea>
ea>   This is based on information and wording from gavin.
ea>
ea> Modified:
ea>   head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
ea>
ea> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
ea> ==============================================================================
ea> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Sun May 19 00:56:24 2013	(r41671)
ea> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Sun May 19 01:02:30 2013	(r41672)
ea> @@ -1680,16 +1680,13 @@
ea>  	  </question>
ea>
ea>  	  <answer>
ea> -	    <para>Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems are generally
ea> -	      supported by &os;, although in some cases, BIOS or
ea> -	      motherboard bugs may generate some problems.</para>
ea> -
ea> -	    <para>&os; will take advantage of HyperThreading (HTT)
ea> -	      support on &intel; CPUs that support this feature.  A kernel
ea> -	      with the <literal>options SMP</literal> option, enabled
ea> -	      by default,
ea> -	      will automatically detect the additional logical
ea> -	      processors.</para>
ea> +	    <para>&os; supports Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) on all
ea> +	      non-embedded platforms (e.g, i386, amd64/x86-64,
ea> +	      ia64, sparc64, powerpc, powerpc64).  SMP is also
ea> +	      supported in arm and MIPS kernels, although some CPUs
ea> +	      may not support this.  &os;'s SMP implementation uses
ea> +	      fine-grained locking, and performance scales nearly
ea> +	      liniarly with number of CPUs.</para>

 &arch.*; should be used consistently for names of the platforms.  And please do
 s/Symmetric/symmetric/ or capitalize all of the three words for SMP.

-- Hiroki
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