Re: SMP Support with Debian Woody

[Lance Simmons <lance@lsimmons.net>]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 07:36:24PM -0500, Michael Madden wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel supported SMP?  

It doesn't. The configuration file needs to contain the line
"CONFIG_SMP=y". You can check:

  grep SMP /boot/config*

If any of your installed debian kernels had smp support, you'd see
something like this:

  /boot/config-2.4.18:CONFIG_SMP=y

> Any help to get Debian 3.0 to see my dual processors would be helpful.

You can either install a precompiled kernel-image, or compile your own
kernel. To see what precompiled kernel-images are available:

 apt-cache search kernel-image

To make your own kernel, install kernel-package (and whatever it depends
on), then install a kernel-source package (apt-cache search
kernel-source will show the available ones), configure and compile it.
You can copy your existing config file into your source directory, add
the SMP line, then compile.

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