Re: How to Determine Which Kernel

From: Peter Samuelson (peter@cadcamlab.org)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 22:13:40 EST


  [Quang Nguyêñ]
> > I found one problem.... Just look for apic_reg in /proc/ksyms. If
> > it's present then the kernel is SMP. This is true for 2.0.x
> > kernel... and that's all I wanted to know.

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]
> Not true I believe. i386 can have apic enabled, even on UP
> systems. Not sure if that symbol is still there, but it would seem to
> make sense.

Not in 2.0. That was the only problem case. On 2.2+ he could just
grep for SMP in /proc/version or whatever.

Peter

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