Re: SMP Extraversion

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:30:23 +0100 (BST)


> attached is a patch which does append the string "-SMP" to the kernel
> version, if the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_SMP.
>
> For slight changes, the MODVERSION mechanism is best suited.

The big problem one is the 1G/2Gig split, which causes same structures
wrong offset problems where modules do load. Once you include that you
end up needing

1G-uni 2G-uni 1G-smp 2G-smp

SuSE I believe ship a 4G kernel setup too using the big mem patches on 2.2
so you can add

4G-uni and 4G-smp

Im not so sure its a good idea at that point but if it handles the SMP case
it ought to handle the more dangerous 1 or 2 gig problem as well

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