Re: lilo vs other OS bootloaders was: FreeBSD makes progress

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:10:00 -0300 (BRST)

On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> ANdreas Dilger wrote:
> > Win2K even abstracts all SMP/UP code into a module (the HAL) and loads this
> > at boot, thus using the same kernel for both.

> the only possibility of this shows how ugly is SMP in win2k...

Not necessarily. More likely the difference between SMP and
UP is marketing-only and both have the overhead of SMP
locking, etc..

cheers,

Rik

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