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SubjectRe: [patch] SMP alternatives
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:36:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>>Actual UP machines are going to go away - even ARM is going SMP, and
>>in the PC space, we'll have multi-core laptops probably being the
>>rule rather than the exception in a couple of years.
>
> CPUs in embedded the space could outnumber desktops & servers greatly
> (cell phones, access pointers, routers, media players, etc). Most of
> these will be UP for some time.

It's unlikely, though, that you'd have a need to run an SMP-compiled
kernel on these devices.

-hpa
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