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Date: Thu,  9 Sep 2004 18:28:14 +0200
From: "Joel Dahl" <joel@automatvapen.se>
Reply-To: Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se>
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Subject: [PATCH] FAQ update: SMP is enabled by default since 5.2.
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>Number:         71533
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] FAQ update: SMP is enabled by default since 5.2.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 09 16:30:18 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:    Sun Sep 12 13:48:54 GMT 2004
>Last-Modified:  Sun Sep 12 13:48:54 GMT 2004
>Originator:     Joel Dahl
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD dude.automatvapen.se 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #1: Sat Jul 10 16:52:28 CEST 2004 root@dude.automatvapen.se:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WORKSTATION i386

>Description:
SMP is enabled by default in FreeBSD since 5.2. This patch corrects the FAQ.

>How-To-Repeat:
n/a
	
>Fix:

	

--- faqsmp.diff begins here ---
--- book.sgml	Sun Sep  5 16:26:40 2004
+++ new.book.sgml	Wed Sep  8 22:30:43 2004
@@ -2265,11 +2265,13 @@
         </question>
 
         <answer>
-          <para>Yes.  SMP is not enabled in the
-            <emphasis>GENERIC</emphasis> kernel, so you must recompile
-            your kernel to enable SMP. Take a look at
-            <filename>/sys/i386/conf/LINT</filename> to learn what
-            options to put in your kernel config file.</para>
+          <para>Yes.  SMP is enabled by default in the
+            <emphasis>GENERIC</emphasis> kernel since &os; 5.2.</para>
+
+          <para>In &os; 4.X, SMP is not enabled in the default
+            kernel, so you must recompile your kernel to enable SMP. Take
+            a look at <filename>/sys/i386/conf/LINT</filename> to learn
+            what options to put in your kernel config file.</para>
         </answer>
       </qandaentry>
 
--- faqsmp.diff ends here ---


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: simon 
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 12 13:48:10 GMT 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed, thanks for the submission! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71533 
>Unformatted:
