John Polstra (jdp@polstra.com) wrote:
> FWIW, my experience has been different. Yesterday I tried both the
> latest -current and 4.5-RELEASE on a Dell 2650, and both kernels
> failed to probe the extra processor cores. My colleagues who have
> been working with the system told me that XP does detect them. Maybe
> XP stands for Xtra Processors? ;-)
>
> Under FreeBSD I ran the "mptable" command, and it lists only one CPU
> per physical processor module. So at least for this particular BIOS,
> the kernel would have to Just Know that each processor has 2 cores in
> order to utilize them.
You have to start the other cores. Peter has more info on how to do this.
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