Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Sep 1997 11:56:14 -0400 | From | Bill Hawes <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_SMP patch available for 2.1.54 |
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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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