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authorNick Holland <nick@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-08-11 01:28:43 +0000
committerNick Holland <nick@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-08-11 01:28:43 +0000
commit8a0dffb50e37456929ef2c01cce41eab0f4c0adc (patch)
treeb85718287f84ca3336cedc89bcf61cdf94afaac5
parente1e17e3fbbdc68b670a11a6d123a8c114f4cbe1c (diff)
SMP IS supported. ok miod@
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+++ b/distrib/notes/i386/hardware
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.156 2004/06/05 15:17:56 grange Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.157 2004/08/11 01:28:42 nick Exp $
OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV works across a broad range of standard PCs and
clones, with a wide variety of processors and I/O bus architectures. It
can be expected to install and run with minimal difficulties on most
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ current products. The cases where problems may be encountered are
typically older proprietary PCs, laptops, or specialized server boxes
that rely on a custom BIOS to paper over implementation differences.
-OpenBSD does not currently support multiple processors (SMP), but will
-run using one processor on a multi-processor system board.
+OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV supports most SMP (Symmetrical MultiProcessor)
+systems. To support SMP operation, a separate SMP kernel (bsd.mp)
+is included with the installation file sets.
The minimal configuration to install the system is 12MB or 16MB of RAM and
perhaps 100MB of disk space. A custom kernel might be able to run with only