Re: Dual-core Athlon

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Neil Booth wrote:
> Archimedes Gaviola wrote:-
>
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Sascha Wildner <saw@online.de> wrote:
> > > Neil Booth schrieb:
> > > > I don't believe Dragonfly is using / enabling the second CPU
> > > > of a dual-core Athlon I bought recently. ?At least, top only
> > > > shows one cpu. ?Is there a way to enable it, or can Dragonfly
> > > > not do that yet?
> > > Hmm, and this is with a kernel that has 'options SMP' and 'options APIC_IO'
> > > set in the config? Our stock GENERIC is UP only.
> > >
> > > Sascha
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://yoyodyne.ath.cx
> > Yes that's right, as based on my experience with 2-way Quad-Core Xeon
> > machines on DragonFly, you have to recompile your GENERIC kernel with
> > 'options SMP' to be able to detect multiple core CPUs.
>
> I see; no this is a stock install kernel.  Thanks.

The LiveDVD contains a prebuild SMP kernel IIRC. In case you are too 
lazy to compile your own SMP kernel :)

Regards,

  Michael