Re: Kernel 2.6.17 RPM builds

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan fenrus demon nl>]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:06 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 08:05 -0600, mike cchtml com wrote:
> >   
> >> Why are the people in charge of the kernel RPM making seperate RPMs for
> >> non-SMP and SMP?
> >>     
> >
> > probably because SMP kernels do not boot on a large number of UP
> > machines....
> >   
> why? does nosmp helps here?

things like APICs confusing SMM code, defective MP tables....
and traditionally on FC the smp kernel enabled also PAE, which isn't
implemented on several popular UP-only processors....