MultiCPU opteron Kernel configuration.

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 27 July 2005 07:11 am, Phil Allsopp wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Tyan Tiger K8S PRO twin opteron board and want to run FreeBSD 5.4
> in twin CPU mode. However, when I re-configure the kernel, I add
>
> options SMP
>
> and rebuild everything and see no errors, however I see no multiple CPU
> usage after rebuilding, installing and rebooting the machine.
>
> On older versions of FreeBSD, I used to add
>
> options APIC_IO
>
> to the kernel conf file to get a multiple CPU system running, but 5.4 AMD
> version of FreeBSD doesn't seem to recognise this.
>
> Information seems to be thin on the ground about dual CPU's under
> FreeBSD  5.4 AMD 64 and wondered if anyone could point me the right
> direction.
>
> Thanks in advance.

Use 'device apic' rather than 'options APIC_IO'

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