Bug 41166

Summary: man page for smp(4) is short on details
Product: Documentation Reporter: Nick Hilliard <nick-lists>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Description Nick Hilliard 2002-07-30 19:30:01 UTC
The man page for smp(4) is a little lacking in detail about FreeBSD's SMP
implementation.  The patch included below just gives some details on how to
enable SMP, and points the user at the handbook.
Comment 1 Chris Pepper 2002-07-30 20:32:18 UTC
	Double 'the'

>+be enabled in FreeBSD by compiling a kernel with the the following options
>+enabled:


						Chris Pepper

At 3:05 PM +0100 2002/07/30, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>  >Number:         41166
>>Category:       docs
>>Synopsis:       man page for smp(4) is short on details
>>Confidential:   no
>>Severity:       non-critical
>>Priority:       low
>>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>>State:          open
>>Quarter:       
>>Keywords:      
>>Date-Required:
>>Class:          update
>>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jul 30 11:30:01 PDT 2002
>>Closed-Date:
>>Last-Modified:
>>Originator:     Nick Hilliard
>>Release:        FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE-p2 i386
>>Organization:
>Network Ability Ltd.
>>Environment:
>System: FreeBSD flapjack.netability.ie 4.6-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 
>4.6-RELEASE-p2 #1: Sat Jul 13 22:31:25 IST 2002 
>nick@flapjack.netability.ie:/usr/src/sys/compile/FLAPJACK i386
>
>
>>Description:
>
>The man page for smp(4) is a little lacking in detail about FreeBSD's SMP
>implementation.  The patch included below just gives some details on how to
>enable SMP, and points the user at the handbook.
>
>>How-To-Repeat:
>
>>Fix:
>
>--- smp.4.orig	Fri Aug 17 14:08:39 2001
>+++ smp.4	Tue Jul 30 15:00:57 2002
>@@ -34,23 +34,40 @@
>  .Sh DESCRIPTION
>  The
>  .Nm
>-kernel implements symmetric multiprocessor support.
>+kernel implements symmetric multiprocessor support.  This functionality can
>+be enabled in FreeBSD by compiling a kernel with the the following options
>+enabled:

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Comment 2 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-12-23 23:44:52 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Alot better patch was committed to the smp(4) manual page recently.  A few 
things you have listed here were added at that time.  Thanks for the 
submission!