From eb5601c57b7797c7d36498c0a228da52f7cf33d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 01:02:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Improve the smp-support question wording for the modern era. 
 Indicate that certain ARM cpus may have issues.

This is based on information and wording from gavin.
---
 en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml | 17 +++++++----------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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>