On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:50:38AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:53:30AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > If the kernel team would really like to handle issues like detecting > > whether an i386 machine running a UP kernel is SMP, I'd be very happy > > for the code for that to move there. However, I don't think the 1:1 > > subarch mapping you describe actually exists; it's rife with special > > cases. Colin already designed the code to factor out common information. > > > > I've been meaning to ask why the installer doesn't just boot with an SMP > kernel to determine how many processors the machine has. Is there a problem > with running an SMP kernel on a UP machine?
SMP may be broken in some cases, and there is a (upto 20-30 % in some cases i hear) performance hit to it. Now, with people proposing to run only the SMP kernels, this may change though. Already powerpc64 is SMP only. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
