Re: Avoiding SMP

dan singhal (msinghal@r39h136.res.gatech.edu)
Tue, 10 Mar 1998 22:32:58 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> --- satan/Makefile Tue Mar 10 21:10:18 1998
> +++ linux/Makefile Tue Mar 10 21:11:30 1998
> @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
> #
> # NOTE! SMP is experimental. See the file Documentation/SMP.txt
> #
> +# For UP operation COMMENT THIS OUT, setting SMP = 0 won't work
> +#
> SMP = 1

Just out of curiosity ...
I've been just doing make on a uni-processor machine (UP board, too), so
i've been getting SMP kernels for a while ...

1) does this matter? will it cause any problems of any sort?
2) does the = ? mean anything, or is it just defining SMP? I have a
friend who is adding a second processor soon, and keeps insisting
that he will have to change it to SMP = 2 to make it recognize the
second processor ... does the number matter at all?

thanx!

--dan

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