netbsd-help: Re: SMP - newbie question?

Subject: Re: SMP - newbie question?
To: John Niven <senseamp@comcast.net>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/30/2005 17:20:22

On 2005年6月30日, John Niven wrote:
> Ah! So I tried that and it says "hw.ncpu = 1"
>
> I guess I'm going to have to try and build my own kernel - can't have a
> perfectly good CPU idle!
You can also try one of the ready-to-use GENERIC.MP kernels. For example,
look under ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/sets/
or ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/kernel/
The above is for 2.0.2 although you mentioned 2.0.
This question is targetted for others: By the way, why do we have two of
each kernels -- one gzipped and one tarred up?
3565473	 NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.MP.gz
3565556	 NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/sets/kern-GENERIC.MP.tgz
(I didn't look, but I assume the kernels are identical.)
 Jeremy C. Reed
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