Re: Shouldn't SMP be an option?

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Sat, 4 Apr 1998 13:15:42 -0600


Hi guys,

> This patch makes CONFIG_SMP a real configuration option, complete with
> documentation. Michael Chastain, who made this patch, has been offline
> for a couple of weeks because he is moving, so I think that if this is
> going to go in before 2.2, somebody will probably need to adopt it and
> finish anything that isn't done yet.

Hey, it's not up for adoption yet! :)

My home computer is still in a box, but I can telnet from work over
the weekends to a friendly Linux machine. All the coding and half
the testing has been done for months now. I just have to make new
versions to track kernel changes.

The problem is that no one can test yet on a Sparc/Sparc64, because the
stock 2.1.XX Sparc/Sparc64 trees don't compile. As soon as they do,
I'm going to make another version.

After that, it's up to Linus. I wrote to him several days ago and
asked him, but I didn't get a response.

Michael Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"

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