diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml index ea7f0a7ce8..8a5674349f 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml @@ -1680,16 +1680,13 @@ </question> <answer> - <para>Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems are generally - supported by &os;, although in some cases, BIOS or - motherboard bugs may generate some problems.</para> - - <para>&os; will take advantage of HyperThreading (HTT) - support on &intel; CPUs that support this feature. A kernel - with the <literal>options SMP</literal> option, enabled - by default, - will automatically detect the additional logical - processors.</para> + <para>&os; supports Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) on all + non-embedded platforms (e.g, i386, amd64/x86-64, + ia64, sparc64, powerpc, powerpc64). SMP is also + supported in arm and MIPS kernels, although some CPUs + may not support this. &os;'s SMP implementation uses + fine-grained locking, and performance scales nearly + liniarly with number of CPUs.</para> <para>&man.smp.4; has more details.</para> </answer>