On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, dann frazier wrote: > 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...
non-SMP kernels may be useful for a number of specialized uses. Think about kexec, test situations, low memory situations and running a kernel in a virtualized environment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
