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



On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 22:04 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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).

I've fixed these values (I hope) for armhf, arm64, mips and mipsel based
on the current kernel configurations.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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