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    SubjectRe: CONFIG_SMP patch available for 2.1.54
    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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