> No major distribution supports 2.0 SMP. For all the obvious reasons.
> Expect this to change with 2.2
Slackware 4.0, to be released IMHO pretty soon I think (beta/pre is publicly
available):
$grep -i smp FILELIST.TXT:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 831488 Mar 30 02:42 ./bootdsks.144/smp.i
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1118208 Mar 30 02:43 ./bootdsks.144/smp.s
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 245803 Mar 30 00:42 ./kernels/smp.i/System.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 709936 Mar 30 00:42 ./kernels/smp.i/bzImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17087 Mar 30 00:42 ./kernels/smp.i/config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 289297 Mar 30 00:48 ./kernels/smp.s/System.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 996485 Mar 30 00:48 ./kernels/smp.s/bzImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17087 Mar 30 00:48 ./kernels/smp.s/config
Some entries from ChangeLog.txt:
Thu Mar 25 20:53:09 CST 1999
[...]
slakware/a7/ibcs2.tgz: SMP iBCS module moved into /lib/modules/2.2.3/smp/,
where 'depmod -a' won't complain about it at boot time
on non-SMP machines. If SMP is detected, the SMP
module will be loaded from the new location.
[...]
Mon Mar 22 23:17:01 CST 1999
[...]
slakware/a7/ibcs2.tgz: Upgraded to ibcs-2.1-981105, recompiled for 2.2.3.
Added automatic detection of and support for SMP.
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