Bug#491309: linux-2.6: Kernel supports "only" 32 cpu's

[Rik Theys <Rik.Theys@esat.kuleuven.be>]

Subject: linux-2.6: Kernel supports "only" 32 cpu's
Package: linux-2.6
Severity: wishlist


Hi,

The current Debian kernel supports 32 cpu's according to the 
/boot/config file. The
RHEL/CentOS 5 kernel has CONFIG_NR_CPUS set to 255. Any chance the 
Debian kernel
parameter can be adjusted to be a bit higher? I assume multi core 
machines will
become common hardware during the Lenny lifecycle. 32-bit machines are 
expected in
6 months.

Regards,

Rik

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash


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