Re: Automatically installing an SMP kernel on AMD64 SMP machines
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:06:15AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> As told to some of us on IRC, I have installed a Debian on a dual
> dual-core Opteron machine, using the graphical installer (but the
> problem does not look specific to it).
>
> The installed kernel was the k8 one, but a non-SMP kernel. Frans Pop
> told me that's there is currently no known method to detect the number
> of processors.
Recent 2.6 kernels have the SMP alternatives patch included, so I expect
that this detection will soon become obsolete as our kernels learn how
to adapt themselves to UP or SMP on the fly automatically.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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