Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master cauldron by Karsten Behrmann (c8826657025d00ccd780bbf03ac4862b815d4c62)
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:05:13 -0800
On Saturday 24 February 2007 01:10:19 Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> On Friday 23 February 2007 23:19, Karsten Behrmann wrote:
> > GIT changes to master cauldron by Karsten Behrmann
> > <BearPerson AT sourcemage.org>:
> >
> > iso/data/config-2.6 | 979
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 files changed, 720
> > insertions(+), 259 deletions(-)
> >
> > New commits:
> > commit c8826657025d00ccd780bbf03ac4862b815d4c62
> > Author: Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT sourcemage.org>
> > Commit: Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT sourcemage.org>
> >
> > Check in new kernel config, thanks muchly to sobukus for making one
>
> <snip>
>
> > +# CONFIG_SMP is not set
>
> My guesstimate based on Debian's kernel config is that SMP can be enabled
> by default. The Debian linux-image-2.6-686-smp package is a meta package
> for linux-image-2.6-686, which in turn is a meta package for
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-686. Multi-core CPUs are becoming commonplace and the
> SMP setting apparently causes no harm on single-core systems. But we'd
> still need to test this in practice too just to make sure.
FYI,
SMP breaks on my single-CPU Athlon-XP with an nForce2 board. :(