On 6/30/05, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, John Niven wrote:
>=20
> > Ah! So I tried that and it says "hw.ncpu =3D 1"
> >
> > I guess I'm going to have to try and build my own kernel - can't have a
> > perfectly good CPU idle!
>=20
> You can also try one of the ready-to-use GENERIC.MP kernels. For example,
> look under ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/sets/
> or ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/kernel/
>=20
> The above is for 2.0.2 although you mentioned 2.0.
>=20
> This question is targetted for others: By the way, why do we have two of
> each kernels -- one gzipped and one tarred up?
>=20
> 3565473  NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.MP.gz
> 3565556  NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/sets/kern-GENERIC.MP.tgz
>=20
> (I didn't look, but I assume the kernels are identical.)

I think they are. I checked on hpcmips and they were. I never
understood that either. Naming convention? Tradition?