SMP on Older Hardware

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 22 November 2004 01:46 pm, AC wrote:
> I've got an old dual processor box (two 233mhz Pentiums) running Linux with
> a 2.4.22 kernel.  I was thinking of trying FreeBSD.  Will FreeBSD support
> this older configuration?

It should work fine, but the SMP code in 5.x isn't well tested on certain 
older MP Tables, so there's a chance it might only work with SMP disabled for 
now until I can fix the problems with older MP Tables.

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