Re: Makefile defaulting to SMP

Brian Gerst (bgerst@quark.vpplus.com)
Tue, 28 Oct 1997 23:40:37 -0500

Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> in responses to my problem with missing APM in SMP Linuxen I have been
> kindly informed by Alan Cox and John Gotts that using SMP-enabled
> kernels on uniprocessor machines is not at all recommended.

Not only not recommended, it can fail completely with a Cyrix processor.
I have many times forgotten to unset SMP=1 and wound up with a kernel
that oops'es immediately upon startup. I do not know if the problem
occurs with any other non-Intel cpu's.

> Then I wonder why "linux/Makefile" defaults to a setting of "SMP = 1",
> not after warning me that SMP is experimental, etc.
>
> Robbe
>
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