On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:06 +0200, dragoran wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 08:05 -0600, mike@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > >> Why are the people in charge of the kernel RPM making seperate RPMs for > >> non-SMP and SMP? > >> > > > > probably because SMP kernels do not boot on a large number of UP > > machines.... > > > why? does nosmp helps here? things like APICs confusing SMM code, defective MP tables.... and traditionally on FC the smp kernel enabled also PAE, which isn't implemented on several popular UP-only processors.... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
