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-===== Building and booting SMP ===== 
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-<div round important>​ 
-**These instructions need revisiting and checking.** 
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-To rebuild SMP version of Minix set the following environment variables and follow the steps for compilation with gcc. 
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-<​code>​ 
-$ CONFIG_SMP=y CONFIG_MAX_CPUS=N 
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-where N stands for the number of supported CPUs. If N => than the number of CPUs in your system, all CPUs are booted, if N < the number of available CPUs only N are booted. 
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-At the moment, a SMP configured image will enable ACPI and APIC by default. These are hard requirements for SMP to work. 
  
 ===== BSD Make Documentation ===== ===== BSD Make Documentation =====
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