On Friday 11 October 2002 05:46, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:25, Jack Bowling wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:45:31AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 08:43, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > > > have. They did ship such a kernel with 7.3. It is still possible to > > > > build an SMP i586 kernel from the SRPM, but this is turned off by > > > > default. I don't know why. > > > > > > CD space reasons. It was either the i586 smp kernel or 10Mb of other > > > packages that had to go ;( > > > The number of users of the i586 smp kernel appeared very small and at > > > least less than the number of users of the <lot of other packages> that > > > make up 10Mb. > > > > Does that imply that the DVD version has a 586 SMP kernel binary? > > it does not.... for technical reasons BTW, /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/kernel-2.4.18-i586-smp.config can be used to build an smp kernel for the i586. Gene
