Preemption and SMP settings
We are exploring PowerQUICCII Pro and PowerQUICC III as a platform for some of our products. As part of research we found that premption is not enabled by default in the debian kernel (http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2007/04/msg00028.html). Also the kernel configuration system recommends that SMP support be left disabled as its not supported in hardware.
I would like to know:
What is the default setting of SMP and preemption in the latest debian kernel.
What can go wrong if you run a kernel with both enabled (not boot, be slow, crash randomly etc), in case anyone of you has experimented.
Rgds
Vinay Sharma
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