FreeBSD 5.4 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update

From: Colin Percival (colin.percival_at_wadham.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 06/15/05

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To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org

    It sounds like the SMP kernel I provided for FreeBSD 5.3 was quite
    popular, so I've started building an SMP kernel for FreeBSD 5.4 as
    well, in addition to the usual GENERIC kernel. To take advantage
    of this on your FreeBSD 5.4 SMP system, run the following commands
    as root:

    # touch /boot/kernel/SMP
    # freebsd-update fetch
    # freebsd-update install
    # echo 'bootfile="SMP"' >> /boot/loader.conf

    and reboot. You should now find that `uname -ri` outputs "5.4-SECURITY SMP".

    Colin Percival

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