Not only not recommended, it can fail completely with a Cyrix processor.
I have many times forgotten to unset SMP=1 and wound up with a kernel
that oops'es immediately upon startup. I do not know if the problem
occurs with any other non-Intel cpu's.
> Then I wonder why "linux/Makefile" defaults to a setting of "SMP = 1",
> not after warning me that SMP is experimental, etc.
>
> Robbe
>
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