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31 .Nd description of the FreeBSD Symmetric MultiProcessor kernel.
37 kernel implements symmetric multiprocessor support.
41 kernel supports motherboards that follow the Intel MP specification,
44 That would be a good guess...
51 kernel's early history is not (properly) recorded. It was developed
52 in a separate CVS branch until April 26, 1997, at which point it was
53 merged into 3.0-current. By this date 3.0-current had already been
54 merged with Lite2 kernel code.
56 .An Steve Passe Aq fsmp@FreeBSD.org