Index: smp.4
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/smp.4,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -r1.12 smp.4
--- smp.4	14 Jul 2001 19:40:47 -0000	1.12
+++ smp.4	6 Dec 2002 02:02:39 -0000
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/smp.4,v 1.12 2001/07/14 19:40:47 schweikh Exp $
 .\"
-.Dd August 4, 1997
+.Dd December 5, 2002
 .Dt SMP 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -36,15 +36,25 @@
 .Nm
 kernel implements symmetric multiprocessor support.
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY
-The
+Support for multi-processor systems is present for all supported
+architectures on FreeBSD.
+Currently, this includes alpha, i386, ia64, and sparc64.
+.Pp
+For i386 systems, the
 .Nm
 kernel supports motherboards that follow the Intel MP specification,
 version 1.4.
-.Sh BUGS
-That would be a good guess...
+On i386 systems, the
+.Xr mptable 1
+command may be used to view the status of multi-processor support.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mptable 1 ,
-.Xr dmesg 8
+.Xr condvar 9 ,
+.Xr msleep 9 ,
+.Xr mtx_pool 9 ,
+.Xr mutex 9 ,
+.Xr sema 9 ,
+.Xr sx 9
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm
@@ -52,5 +62,13 @@
 in a separate CVS branch until April 26, 1997, at which point it was
 merged into 3.0-current.  By this date 3.0-current had already been
 merged with Lite2 kernel code.
+.Pp
+.Fx 5.0
+introduced support for a host of new synchronization primitives, and
+a move towards fine-grained kernel locking rather than reliance on
+a Giant kernel lock.
+The SMPng Project relied heavily on the support of BSDi, who provided
+reference source code from the fine-grained SMP implementation found
+in BSD/OS.
 .Sh AUTHORS
 .An Steve Passe Aq fsmp@FreeBSD.org