Re: Cyrix Detection -- NO SMP, please ?????

Serguei Koubouchine (ksi@gu.net)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:52:44 +0300 (EEST)


On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Rafael Reilova wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Khimenko Victor wrote:

> You seem to be missing something here, the kernel image the install
> CD/floppy boots in not necessarily the image that will go into the new
> Linux installation. The distribution installer program can choose later
> on the most appropriate image from the CD and copy it to the hard drive.

Right.

> Also, we don't need an SMP kernel to detect SMP, just a setuid root
> program that can probe a few IO ports around the system. This is not
> optimal but making SMP 100% realiable under UP is hard and not a priority
> of the SMP developers, and understandably so: it is agreed that "you
> shalt not run SMP on UP" since performance will suck.

Can you point for such a program?

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