> 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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