> The Alpha has been through this pain to the point that people gave up on
> the Linux instructions and installed NT simply because they couldn't work out
> which kernel to install. We now have a generic kernel for the Alpha, thanks
> to deep magic we have a generic kernel for the Sparc - which makes the intel
> like look positively sane
>
> The x86 shouldnt make the same mistakes as the Alpha did.
What is problem? CONFIG_M386 + CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION still runs
everywhere (but maybe only on single CPU). CONFIG_M386 +
CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION + CONFIG_SMP should be able to run anywhere in
reasonabl efficient way, but I may be overlooking something obvious. I
never ran SMP.
[Fortunately, _all_ users know how many processors they have and 486
SMP machines are really rare and non-Intel SMP machines are not
available, so CONFIG_SMP + CONFIG_M586 should do the trick if you can
rely on people telling you how many processors they have.]
Pavel
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