Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Oct 1997 23:40:37 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: Makefile defaulting to SMP |
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Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > Hi, > > in responses to my problem with missing APM in SMP Linuxen I have been > kindly informed by Alan Cox and John Gotts that using SMP-enabled > kernels on uniprocessor machines is not at all recommended.
Not only not recommended, it can fail completely with a Cyrix processor. I have many times forgotten to unset SMP=1 and wound up with a kernel that oops'es immediately upon startup. I do not know if the problem occurs with any other non-Intel cpu's.
> Then I wonder why "linux/Makefile" defaults to a setting of "SMP = 1", > not after warning me that SMP is experimental, etc. > > Robbe > > -- > Robert Bihlmeyer reads: Deutsch, English, MIME, Latin-1, NO SPAM! > <robbe@orcus.priv.at> <http://stud2.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426626/sig.html>
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Brian Gerst
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