Re: 2.4 -> 2.2 differences?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 19:02:53 EST


On Sad, 2003-07-26 at 00:29, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <20030725142434.GS32585@rdlg.net> you wrote:
> > With all the SCO fun going on I have people asking me what functionality
> > we would loose if we rolled from 2.4.21 kernel to the last known stable
> > 2.2 kernel.
>
> it is easier to turn off SMP.
>
> BTW: what will happen if there is some SMP code from IBM in the kernel which
> is owned by SCO? Isnt it a matter of days to remove that code? Does anybody
> have to pay for past usage of the code?

The core 2.2 SMP code is stuff I wrote. Caldera (aka SCO) even provided
me the hardware and asked me to do it. The later table parser code is
from Intel.

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