SMP(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual SMP(4)NAMESMP — description of the Symmetric MultiProcessor kernel
SYNOPSIS
options SMPDESCRIPTION
The SMP kernel implements symmetric multiprocessor support. APIC I/O can
be enabled or disabled by setting the hw.apic_io_enable loader tunable
(default is enabled).
COMPATIBILITY
The SMP kernel supports motherboards that follow the Intel MP specifica‐
tion, version 1.4.
SEE ALSOmptable(1), dmesg(8)HISTORY
The SMP kernel's early history is not (properly) recorded. It was devel‐
oped in a separate CVS branch until April 26, 1997, at which point it was
merged into 3.0-current. By this date 3.0-current had already been
merged with Lite2 kernel code.
AUTHORS
Steve Passe ⟨fsmp@FreeBSD.org⟩
BUGS
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