Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:13:58 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] SMP alternatives |
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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.
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