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26.Dd August 4, 1997
27.Dt SMP 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm SMP
31.Nd description of the FreeBSD Symmetric MultiProcessor kernel
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Nm
34.Sh DESCRIPTION
35The
36.Nm
37kernel implements symmetric multiprocessor support.
38.Sh COMPATIBILITY
39The
40.Nm
41kernel supports motherboards that follow the Intel MP specification,
42version 1.4.
43.Sh BUGS
44That would be a good guess...
45.Sh SEE ALSO
46.Xr mptable 1 ,
47.Xr dmesg 8
48.Sh HISTORY
49The
50.Nm
51kernel's early history is not (properly) recorded.  It was developed
52in a separate CVS branch until April 26, 1997, at which point it was
53merged into 3.0-current.  By this date 3.0-current had already been
54merged with Lite2 kernel code.
55.Sh AUTHORS
56.An Steve Passe Aq fsmp@FreeBSD.org
57