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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SMP on FreeBSD 2.2.1??
Date: 30 May 1997 16:37:28 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <338ED889.42E892D1@hosteng.org>,
"Ivar Høsteng" <ivar@hosteng.org> writes:
> I have a PR440FX intel motherboard with 2 200Mhz PPro's that is
> currently running Linux. I have the FreeBSD 2.2.1 CD-rom and is
> considering migrating to FreeBSD.
>
> But I want to bee able to use both CPU's, and the only SMP kernels I
> have found are the 3.0-current ones. Is there a patch to apply to 2.2.1
> to get SMP support or is it possible to just upgrade the kernel to 3.x?
There's no patch as such. An upgrade can be done via CTM or cvsup.
There's some documentation on these in the handbook (keeping current
with FreeBSD or something). I like cvsup best, but I havn't used
CTM - so I'm not qualified to say that.
> Regards,
> Ivar Høsteng
> email: Ivar@hosteng.org
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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