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Joel Dahl 2006-03-20 16:59:48 +00:00
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<h3>Userland / Installation Tools</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="#p-smpinstall">SMP kernels for install</a></li>
<li><a href="#p-sysinstall">Small sysinstall renovation</a></li>
<li><a href="#p-sysinstall2">Extract the partition and slice table editor
from sysinstall</a></li>
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<hr>
<a name="p-smpinstall"></a>
<h2>SMP kernels for install</h2>
<p>Right now we only install a UP kernel, for
performance reasons. We should be able to package both a UP and SMP
kernel into the release bits, and have sysinstall install both. It
should also select the correct one for the target system and make that
the default on boot. The easiest way to do this would be to have
sysinstall boot an SMP kernel and then look at the hw.ncpu sysctl. The
only problem is being able to have sysinstall fall back to booting a UP
kernel for itself if the SMP one fails. This can probably be 'faked' by
setting one of the SMP-disabling variables in the loader. But in any
case, the point is to make the process Just Work for the user, without
the user needing to know arcane loader/sysctl knobs. SMP laptops are
here, and we should be ready to support SMP out-of-the-box. This needs
to be resolved as soon as possible.</p>
<p>&a.sam; has <a
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2006-February/060180.html">committed</a>
some <a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/tools/tools/ncpus/">test
code</a> for identifying the number of CPU's on a machine. The plan is to
use this code to choose an SMP or UP kernel during installation.</p>
<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Good knowledge of C.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<a name="p-sysinstall"></a>
<h2>Small sysinstall renovation</h2>
<p><!-- Description needed --></p>