> Forgive me if this is an RTFM (which I have), but is it safe yet to
> leave the SMP=1 uncommented out when compiling on a uniprocessor
> machine?
>
> A few revisions ago (2.1.105 maybe?) I found it very unsafe. I haven't
> seen anything mentioned lately about it one way or the other. Anything
> definative?
It's safe for most machines, though every now and then an SMP kernel breaks
on UP. Supposedly there's a performance penalty, though.
A few systems/motherboards won't work with an SMP kernel.
Regards,
Bill
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