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Restore the SMP question as it may still be useful

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Eitan Adler 2013-05-19 00:56:24 +00:00
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</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="smp-support">
<para>Does &os; support Symmetric Multiprocessing
(SMP)?</para>
</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>&man.smp.4; has more details.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="microcode">
<para>What is microcode?