kernel and kernel-smp

Jim Cornette jim-cornette at insight.rr.com
Fri Jan 23 19:18:33 UTC 2004


dalen wrote:
> Paolo wrote:
> 
>> kernel won't run on a smp platform, kernel-smp will run on both
>> UP and SMP but on UP it will run slightly slower.
> 
> Both kernel/kernel-smp run on a smp system.  I think kernel would just 
> enable the first processor.  I have never tried running kernel-smp on a 
> 1p system.
> 
> 

I am running the smp version on a one CPU machine and am not having any 
problems.

Linux cornette-development 2.6.1-1.52smp #1 SMP Tue Jan 20 15:19:59 EST 
2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I downloaded the smp version by mistake, but it still works. Of course, 
all of the features won't be usable.

Jim





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