Need to compile kernel for 2 or more processors?

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 5 December 2010 12:39, Jorge Biquez <jbiquez at intranet.com.mx> wrote:
> Hello all.

Hello.

>
> I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I am sorry in advance.
>

Well, that's life.

>
>  I guess that actually we do not have to change the kernel so all processors
> can be seen? Am I right ?


http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/releng/7.3/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC?revision=203736&view=markup
or
http://tinyurl.com/28km4fc
shows that
---
# To make an SMP kernel, the next two lines are needed
options 	SMP			# Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
device		apic			# I/O APIC
---
is part of GENERIC on 7.3, ergo you needn't recompile to enjoy multiple
processing joy in all(most of) its glory.

HTH

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