Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Sep 1997 18:12:22 -0600 (MDT) | From | James David Rich <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_SMP patch available for 2.1.54 |
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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
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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 >
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