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diff --git a/share/man/man4/smp.4 b/share/man/man4/smp.4 index af71e6e..7620235 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/smp.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/smp.4 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd August 4, 1997 +.Dd December 5, 2002 .Dt SMP 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -36,15 +36,25 @@ The .Nm kernel implements symmetric multiprocessor support. .Sh COMPATIBILITY -The +Support for multi-processor systems is present for all supported +architectures on FreeBSD. +Currently, this includes alpha, i386, ia64, and sparc64. +.Pp +For i386 systems, the .Nm kernel supports motherboards that follow the Intel MP specification, version 1.4. -.Sh BUGS -That would be a good guess... +On i386 systems, the +.Xr mptable 1 +command may be used to view the status of multi-processor support. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr mptable 1 , -.Xr dmesg 8 +.Xr condvar 9 , +.Xr msleep 9 , +.Xr mtx_pool 9 , +.Xr mutex 9 , +.Xr sema 9 , +.Xr sx 9 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm @@ -52,5 +62,13 @@ kernel's early history is not (properly) recorded. It was developed 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. +.Pp +.Fx 5.0 +introduced support for a host of new synchronization primitives, and +a move towards fine-grained kernel locking rather than reliance on +a Giant kernel lock. +The SMPng Project relied heavily on the support of BSDi, who provided +reference source code from the fine-grained SMP implementation found +in BSD/OS. .Sh AUTHORS .An Steve Passe Aq fsmp@FreeBSD.org |
