Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:28 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > >> Are you sure it is the SMP kernel and not the bigsmp one? There's no >> explicit SMP one anymore. > > The system is used in a road measurement vehicle, so they are not always > handy. I got the info over the phone. When the user said "big SMP", I > thought big meant the case of the letters. One hears what one wants to > hear. > > The system has 4GB of RAM. I guess that is why it uses the -BIGSMP > kernel?
Correct.
> The reason this came up was that I stopped worrying about supplying an
> -SMP version of a local device driver in our packages. Life was getting
> simple: only the -default kernel was needed. That didn't last so long.
> Now I need to dig up a system sunning a -BIGSMP kernel to compile the
> driver for the package. That's the hard part.
We removed the SMP but BIGSMP is still needed and was needed in this
case before already on 32-bit x86 systems,
Andreas
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