The biggest headache with maintaining the ia64 kernel has probably been with the non-SMP flavours. Generic/non-SMP configs seem to not get much attention upstream. This makes sense given that most ia64 machines are SMP capable. In fact, I don't think there's a non-SMP capable ia64 machine on the market these days. A number of them are out there, however, including the machine I'm using to compose this message...
powerpc64 recently dropped their non-SMP configs, and I'm thinking of doing the same on ia64. I'd like to know if anyone on the list knows of a reason to keep UP kernels around. Specifically, has anyone performed performance degredation measurements in this area? If not, what types of benchmarks are recommended? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
