>> Its quite embarassing to say that I've built SMP-kernels on my
>> single processor system - I just didn't notice that SMP was
>> enabled. The SMP-kernel caused these ughs, so I got rid of the
>> problem by simply commenting out "SMP=1" in the toplevel Makefile.
>> On the other hand, I wonder why SMP is enabled by default.
The reason why SMP is on by default in the DEVELOPMENT kernels is that
Linus is running an SMP machine and he distributes them set up exactly
how they're configured on his machine. Simple really...
> This has been asked a few times before, and I'll just mention what
> I've been told. This should be changed so that SMP is not default
> anymore once all the different source trees get synced again.
> (i.e., hopefully before 2.2. :)
It's unlikely to be BEFORE 2.2.0 but should be the case IN 2.2.0 when
it finally appears...
Best wishes from Riley.
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