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Re: [SLE] Repository for kernel 2.6.17?
- From: John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:22:48 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200609120022.38242.jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 00:16, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> Except that in earlier releases of the kernel, the SMP version often did
> not run on a non-SMP machine. Not a matter of different performance.
> More a matter of it just not running. There have been code improvements
> in the kernel of late that are allowing us to skip having two compiled
> versions. At least this is what I have been hearing. I don't run such an
> exotic thing yet.
Well that would have been before I got into Linux.
I got my hands on my first PII dual machine way back, and installed SMP
kernels on it, and then had to send off for a replacement processor
after a co-worker modded the hell out of one of the slot one packages.
I was very happy when the machine still ran with only one CPU.
I think that was SuSE 7.1 or slightly earlier.
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John Andersen
> Except that in earlier releases of the kernel, the SMP version often did
> not run on a non-SMP machine. Not a matter of different performance.
> More a matter of it just not running. There have been code improvements
> in the kernel of late that are allowing us to skip having two compiled
> versions. At least this is what I have been hearing. I don't run such an
> exotic thing yet.
Well that would have been before I got into Linux.
I got my hands on my first PII dual machine way back, and installed SMP
kernels on it, and then had to send off for a replacement processor
after a co-worker modded the hell out of one of the slot one packages.
I was very happy when the machine still ran with only one CPU.
I think that was SuSE 7.1 or slightly earlier.
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John Andersen
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