On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 12:44 -0700, Richard Harke wrote: > On Tue September 27 2005 11:00, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Do you mean that kexec doesn't work in SMP situations ? I am not sure > > > what you mean about test situations and the SMP kernel should work just > > > well in virtualized environments, but i have some trouble equating ia64 > > > machines with low memory situations :) > > > > The new kernel started with kexec for debugging purposes may need to be > > simple and small. AFAIK the amount of memory for the second kernel is > > limited. Virtualization of SMP environments is pretty complex. In > > many situations its just nice to have a UP kernel around. > I have a zx2000 running debian. I don't mind if there is no deb package > for the UP version but if I install the kernel source and do my own build, > I would like the UP option to build.
I agree. I think that failure to build a non-SMP kernel would be a bug in the linux-source package. But, unlike a FTBFS bug, I don't think it should be release critical. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
