On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 12:34, Fong Vang wrote: > Does anyone know which part of anaconda is responsible for installing both > the uni and smp kernel on smp systems? What's responsible for detecting the > number of CPUs? How does it do it? With my own scripts, I normally use > /proc/cpuinfo to detect the number of CPUs but what I've found out is that > /proc/cpuinfo shows only 1 CPU when booting from a non-SMP kernel. I'm just > wondering if there's a better way to detect the true number of CPU > regardless of the kernel. There's code in anaconda that parses the mptable. Look at isys/smp.c of the anaconda source tree for all the gory details. Cheers, Jeremy
