> 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
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