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Re: no smp kernel available yet ?!



On 18-09-2009, Frantz Balinski <fbzao038@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just bought a new PC (based on Intel I5 750 processor) -- it's not yet 
> here, but it will soon. So, I looked for some multicore 64bit processors 
> Debian portage, but founded none except ia64 with a monocore default 
> kernel. So, I will have to compile a new kernel (with SMP support).
>
> In the past (8-10 years ago), I already tried to compile the kernel to 
> add Amiga filesystems support (I still have ~512Mo of 
> datas/sources/etc... to get back from an old scsi disk), but the new 
> kernel never works after install/reboot. So, after 3-4 tries, I left.
>
> Multicore cpus are here since a few years, so why don't you set any 
> multicore kernels/distributions ready to use ? Strange :\
>

I think that there is no more monocore kernel in debian for i686/amd64.
Every kernel for recent arches are always SMP. At least this is the case
for my AMD Phenom x3 and Intel Core i7 920. 

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall


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