On Saturday 28 June 2003 22:29 pm, Philipp Thomas wrote:
Bruce Marshall
[Sat, 28 Jun 2003 21:37:54 -0400]: I believe you can run an SMP kernel on *any* board... The kernel will figure things out and act accordingly.
You can, but it'll still do a lot of extra work (think spin locks etc.) it wouldn't have to. So it will be less effective than an UP kernel.
Philipp
True... but the issue was how to upgrade a kernel to an SMP board. And the answer is that any kernel should run on any board (hardware quirks excluded) regardless of the number of cpus. Efficiency wasn't an issue. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 06/28/03 22:43 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "You cannot kill time without injuring eternity."