Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> writes:
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:28 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Are you sure it is the SMP kernel and not the bigsmp one? There's no explicit SMP one anymore.
The system is used in a road measurement vehicle, so they are not always handy. I got the info over the phone. When the user said "big SMP", I thought big meant the case of the letters. One hears what one wants to hear.
The system has 4GB of RAM. I guess that is why it uses the -BIGSMP kernel?
Correct.
The reason this came up was that I stopped worrying about supplying an -SMP version of a local device driver in our packages. Life was getting simple: only the -default kernel was needed. That didn't last so long. Now I need to dig up a system sunning a -BIGSMP kernel to compile the driver for the package. That's the hard part.
We removed the SMP but BIGSMP is still needed and was needed in this case before already on 32-bit x86 systems, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126