Re: intel multi-core support

Terry Lambert <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:56:31 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.smp
Message-ID <23051453.1201560991679.JavaMail.root@mswamui-cedar.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
Frank W. Miller wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I've been scanning the source code tree.  Can anyone point me at the files
>where code for enabling and managing Intel multi-core functionality is
>located?

They are built into the ACPI table in your BIOS, so the OS "just finds them" when it reads the processor SMP table information from there.

If you are installing a multicore CPU in a motherboard that's not expecting it, you will need to update your BIOS at the same time so that the processor is reported to the OS.

-- Terry
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