Re: what's the diff between non-SMP and SMP kernel?
Simple - smp kernels support machines with more than one processor in
them. SMP kernels have unneeded things compiled in if your machine, like
most home systems, only has one processor it.
cwinl wrote:
> I'm compiling kernel-source-2.4.25.
> I saw that it's different packages kernel-image-2.4.25-1 and kernel-image-2.4.25-1-smp in the result of command 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.25' .
> I think that the original source package of kernel-2.4.25 must be the same,but i don't know what's the different,and how to compile a SMP kernel deb package.
>
> Thanks.
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