James Rich
reply to:
james.rich@m.cc.utah.edu
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Bill Hawes wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> > This will save me an awful lot of time on the all-too-frequent occasions when
> > I forget to edit the Makefile before compiling a new kernel. I've built SMP
> > kernels for other peoples' machines, and I've built uniprocessor kernels for
> > my own. Once I ran my machine on a single CPU for a week before I noticed!
>
> I've been puzzled for a while with the discussion of __SMP__ and
> CONFIG_SMP. Do some uni-processor machines have a problem with SMP
> kernels? I've been running mine (P133, 32M, ASUS P55T2P4 MB, EIDE HD)
> with SMP-compiled kernels for months without problems.
>
> AFAIK, the kernel does a fine job of treating one processor as a special
> case of SMP. Unless there's a problem on some architectures, why can't
> we just do away with the Uni/SMP distinction?
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>