Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 20:27:29 +0100, a écrit :
> On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit :
> > > On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > > > supports-smp-sometimes - that generation of cpu will most likely
> > > >                          fully support smp, right?
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Yes.
> > 
> > That's not the question here, see the bit of documentation that it
> > enables: it's whether the *kernel* supports SMP by default, through
> > SMP-alternatives, in a separate image, or not in any shipped image.
> 
> There is only one kernel flavour, which of course supports SMP.  I don't
> think SMP-alternatives exist on anything but x86 and ARM, unfortunately.

Ok, thanks.

> By the way, is this correctly documented for armhf?  Both of the armhf
> kernel flavours support SMP with SMP-alternatives.

Apparently nobody updated build/arch-options/armhf in that regard. Note
that smp_config_section and smp_config_option should also be set (they
are the section and option that should be used to enable SMP when
configuring Linux).

Samuel