Careful with the quoting, Pierre. The only two lines I wrote were the
two directly above.
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:
PP> It shouldn't be embarassing or something. SMP kernels are *supposed* to
PP> work on single processor systems.
Aye. I don't have a problem running SMP kernels on UP boxes. It would
just (IMHO) be nice to have the configuration process point it out, so
you can save the emulation layer, extra locking, and so on, that SMP
needs over UP, should you forget to double check the Makefile setting.
Let me clarify my position - I don't really care if SMP=1 is defined
or not for any kernel version - development or stable. It's easy
enough to change if you know it's not the one you want. Popping a
notification into the config process seemed a reasonably trivial
thing to do.
Cheers,
Mark
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