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1.\" Copyright (c) 1997
2.\" Steve Passe <fsmp@FreeBSD.ORG>. All rights reserved.
3.\"
4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
6.\" are met:
7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

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24.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/smp.4 130582 2004-06-16 08:33:57Z ru $
24.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/smp.4 138202 2004-11-29 19:51:50Z ceri $
25.\"
26.Dd December 5, 2002
27.Dt SMP 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm SMP
31.Nd description of the FreeBSD Symmetric MultiProcessor kernel
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Cd options SMP
34.Sh DESCRIPTION
35The
36.Nm
37kernel implements symmetric multiprocessor support.
38.Sh COMPATIBILITY
39Support for multi-processor systems is present for all Tier-1
40architectures on
41.Fx .
25.\"
26.Dd December 5, 2002
27.Dt SMP 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm SMP
31.Nd description of the FreeBSD Symmetric MultiProcessor kernel
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Cd options SMP
34.Sh DESCRIPTION
35The
36.Nm
37kernel implements symmetric multiprocessor support.
38.Sh COMPATIBILITY
39Support for multi-processor systems is present for all Tier-1
40architectures on
41.Fx .
42Currently, this includes alpha, i386, ia64, and sparc64.
42Currently, this includes alpha, amd64, i386, ia64, and sparc64.
43Support is enabled using
44.Cd options SMP .
45It is permissible to use the SMP kernel configuration on non-SMP equipped
46motherboards.
47.Sh I386 NOTES
48For i386 systems, the
49.Nm
50kernel supports motherboards that follow the Intel MP specification,

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43Support is enabled using
44.Cd options SMP .
45It is permissible to use the SMP kernel configuration on non-SMP equipped
46motherboards.
47.Sh I386 NOTES
48For i386 systems, the
49.Nm
50kernel supports motherboards that follow the Intel MP specification,

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