Le samedi 10 mars 2007 15:13, Ben Humpert a écrit : > > Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:42:23 +0200> From: andreimpopescu@gmail.com> > > > Ben Humpert <ben_humpert@msn.com> wrote:> > > kinda curious, uname -a > > said "Linux dr02g 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb> > 21 16:06:54 UTC 2007 > > i686 GNU/Linux". > > This is not a SMP kernel, not a real one or > > something different?!> > ~$ grep SMP /boot/config-2.6.18-4-686> > > CONFIG_SMP=y> # CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP is not set> CONFIG_SUSPEND_SMP=y> > > CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y> CONFIG_X86_SMP=y> > The 686 kernels are SMP > > for some time now.> > > dpkg said, the installed "kernel" is > > "linux-image-2.6.18-4-686" and> > "linux-image-2.6-686" (no > > kernel-image-* is installed)> > The linux kernel packages in etch and > > above have been renamed to avoid> conflicts with non-linux kernels like > > freebsd.> > HTH,> Andrei > > For some time? I don't understand. I thought only a SMP kernel is SMP > capable, others arent. Sure, its still "testing" but testing crap is > nonsense... > > Again i want to switch to a different distribution ... just call the kernel > packages kinda like "debian-kernel-..." so conflicts avoided perfectly ... > in sarge most (not all) of the kernel packages got renamed from > kernel-image* to linux-image*. now they changed names again ... just change > all names now to a name you dont have to change in some month again. > > Also it looks like etch has a bug, i installed "kernel-image-2.6-686-smp" > and "linux-image-2.6-686-smp" but i cannot select this real SMP kernel at > the grup loader, jut the both entries created by the debian installer. > > The differences aptitude shows between these both kernels are: > > linux-image-2.6-686-smp: > - Version: 2.6.18+6 > - Depends: linux-image-2.6-686 > - Tags: admin::kernel > > kernel-image-2.6-686-smp: > - Version: 1:2.6.18+6 > - Depends: linux-image-2.6-686-smp > - Tags: admin::kernel, role::metapackage > > So, what are the real differences? do they just flood apt with "empty" > packages? > > Thanks for advice Seems you have to document yourself a bit before getting angry. 1) kernel packages have changed their names because there are now other kernels than linux's ones (hurd, bsd). So the names linux-image-* 2) Linux kernel after 2.6.17 are all SMP capable, because it does not more degrade performances on a mono-processor system. 3) The force of apt is smooth upgrade between releases. How is this achieved ? In having transitional packages like kernel-image-2.6-686-smp in etch which is here just to upgrade from the sarge kernel package to the new linux-image-2.6-686 in etch. Their are plenty of other meta packages, they are here for dependencies managing and upgrades. If you install linux-image-686, you would upgrade between kernel versions for i686, no matter if it's 2.6.18, 2.6.20 or 3.0. If you don't want, you install the real package linux-image-2.6.18-4-686, and no more upgrades...
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