Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

[Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:53:30AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> If the kernel team would really like to handle issues like detecting
> whether an i386 machine running a UP kernel is SMP, I'd be very happy
> for the code for that to move there. However, I don't think the 1:1
> subarch mapping you describe actually exists; it's rife with special
> cases. Colin already designed the code to factor out common information.
> 

I've been meaning to ask why the installer doesn't just boot with an SMP
kernel to determine how many processors the machine has. Is there a problem
with running an SMP kernel on a UP machine?

regards

Andrew