lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1997]   [Sep]   [10]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: CONFIG_SMP patch available for 2.1.54
SMP kernels on my Cyrix 486/66 don't work.  The system won't boot.  Of 
course this is a pretty obvious clue that I compiled it wrong, but I
don't think the Uni/SMP distinction should be done away with.

James Rich

reply to:

james.rich@m.cc.utah.edu

On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Bill Hawes wrote:

> David Woodhouse wrote:
> > This will save me an awful lot of time on the all-too-frequent occasions when
> > I forget to edit the Makefile before compiling a new kernel. I've built SMP
> > kernels for other peoples' machines, and I've built uniprocessor kernels for
> > my own. Once I ran my machine on a single CPU for a week before I noticed!
>
> I've been puzzled for a while with the discussion of __SMP__ and
> CONFIG_SMP. Do some uni-processor machines have a problem with SMP
> kernels? I've been running mine (P133, 32M, ASUS P55T2P4 MB, EIDE HD)
> with SMP-compiled kernels for months without problems.
>
> AFAIK, the kernel does a fine job of treating one processor as a special
> case of SMP. Unless there's a problem on some architectures, why can't
> we just do away with the Uni/SMP distinction?
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:40    [W:0.122 / U:0.108 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site