Re: SMP=1 and Cyrix 6x86

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:26:56 +0200


Hi!

> > I seem to remember Linus saying that it is SMP by default only for his
> > own convenience and that it would be commented out for 2.2
>
> Maybe there should be (|x|menu)config menu item "SMP symmetric
> multiprocessor support" - if that's not possible, I suggest to create
> one in spite of that which actually only checks the correct SMP state
> in the Makefile and if it's incorrect, it issues an appropriate error
> message and aborts the make process.
>
> The former way would look more "professional" however, though the

The former is already done by mec@shout.net. (Or at least there's a
working version for 2.1.~80).

Pavel

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