Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: CONFIG_SMP patch available for 2.1.54 | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 1997 21:14:15 +0100 (BST) |
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> I had always thought that it wasn't a bad idea for kernel hackers with > only uniprocessors to occasionally trying compiling one of their kernels > SMP, just to test for bugs and make sure their drivers, et. al all > compiled in SMP operation. Is this really worth the effort, or should I > not bother?
Its not a bad idea. The SMP kernel won't run on under a 486DX and on chips with no APIC it may be random. I tend to build a lot of stuff SMP and non SMP. About half of the SMP specific bugs show up non SMP at best.
Ted - just make sure you put the bugs in bits Linus uses ;)
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