On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:02:41PM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:28 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > > Are you sure it is the SMP kernel and not the bigsmp one? There's no > > explicit SMP one anymore. > > The system is used in a road measurement vehicle, so they are not always > handy. I got the info over the phone. When the user said "big SMP", I > thought big meant the case of the letters. One hears what one wants to > hear. > > The system has 4GB of RAM. I guess that is why it uses the -BIGSMP > kernel?
Correct. "bigsmp" is what is in the uname line. > The reason this came up was that I stopped worrying about supplying an > -SMP version of a local device driver in our packages. Life was getting > simple: only the -default kernel was needed. That didn't last so long. > Now I need to dig up a system sunning a -BIGSMP kernel to compile the > driver for the package. That's the hard part. The bigsmp kernel can run on all machines with PAE (Page Address Extensions), which is most of todays hardware. So you can likely just install it and run it ;) Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
