Re: Sarge, kernel-image, and i586-SMP
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:51:09PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:03:34PM -0400, Steaphan Greene wrote:
> > I would not mind it being slow. However, since there seems to be
> > absolutely no SMP support for 586 OR BELOW,
>
> s/OR BELOW//
>
> There is no _hardware_ support in 486 or below for SMP, so don't even
> bother trying to build a kernel with SMP support for those.
There were SMP systems based on i386 CPUs from Sequent, and 486-based
SMP systems both based on the Intel MP spec were aviable from various
vendors, aswell as stranger designs like the NCR Voyager (also supported
by Linux)
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