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| author | Nick Holland <nick@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-08-11 01:28:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Holland <nick@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-08-11 01:28:43 +0000 |
| commit | 8a0dffb50e37456929ef2c01cce41eab0f4c0adc (patch) | |
| tree | b85718287f84ca3336cedc89bcf61cdf94afaac5 /distrib/notes | |
| parent | e1e17e3fbbdc68b670a11a6d123a8c114f4cbe1c (diff) | |
SMP IS supported. ok miod@
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| -rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/i386/hardware | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/i386/hardware b/distrib/notes/i386/hardware index 6e117bc5330..e5153a2ca45 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/i386/hardware +++ 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 |