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Gary Smith wrote: > I have a dual Pentium 166 Tyan board with processors. My question is > simple. Do I have to install special software for it to start using both > processors or will it automatically detect the second processor and start > using it at boot time? > > I have seen a lot of discussion about SMP but no where does it tell you how > to set it up. Please don't tell me that it is in the 103 page how which > just describes what SMP is. You need to recompile the kernel, edit the Makefile and change SMP=0 to SMP=1, recompile and while rebooting will appear something like: Intel Multiprocessor Spec.... . . . Processor #1 Pentium... Processor #0 Pentium... and to check if it works try "cat /proc/cpuinfo" Renzo Alejandro Granados - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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