On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:06:15AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > As told to some of us on IRC, I have installed a Debian on a dual > dual-core Opteron machine, using the graphical installer (but the > problem does not look specific to it). > > The installed kernel was the k8 one, but a non-SMP kernel. Frans Pop > told me that's there is currently no known method to detect the number > of processors.
Recent 2.6 kernels have the SMP alternatives patch included, so I expect that this detection will soon become obsolete as our kernels learn how to adapt themselves to UP or SMP on the fly automatically. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]