Re: 2.1.80 no-go
Linux-Kernel Mail Account (kernel@whitestar.soark.net)
Wed, 21 Jan 1998 08:07:56 -0500 (EST)
The reasoning is really quite clear with some histroy..
Before smartconfig (rescently added) everything was in one .config file
and making a change to any option made you need to recompile massive
ammounts of the kernel, adding SMP as a config option added even more of
the kernel to the list, so it was make a makefile option, from what I hear
it will became a config option once again soon enough...
Zephaniah E, Hull..
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Timothy Murphy wrote:
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> > If your machine is not an SMP system then booting an SMP kernel is now likely
> > to fail quite comprehensively. Your machine probably doesnt even have an APIC
> > on it..
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> Isn't it rather crazy then not to include SMP in .config .
> I don't understand the reasoning behind the omission.
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