All, I have a machine, Dell 1855, that has one SATA hard disk drive but with two Pentium Xeon 2.0Ghz processor. Now, I have both the stable/current source code both for the kernel and the userland. I suppose that the GENERIC kernel supports only one processor whereas the GENERIC.SMP supports multiple processor. The FAQ deals with the GENERIC processor and I cannot get anything under it that tells what to do if one will compile from the source code with a GENERIC.SMP kernel.
Any tips and sidecomments are welcome. Regards, Demuel